BookTalk

The Cartoons That Shook the World

Jytte Klausen

September 30, 2009 / Philadelphia

Jytte Klausen is a professor of comparative politics at Brandeis University. Her earlier book, The Challenge of Islam: Politics and Religion in Western Europe, was published by Oxford University Press in 2005 and subsequently published in German and Turkish. She received the Carnegie Scholars Award (2007-08) for her work on Muslims in Europe and was a Fellow of the United States Institute of Peace in 2003.

The publication of her new book, The Cartoons That Shook the World (Yale University Press), has been accompanied by a controversy over Yale’s decision not to publish the Muhammad cartoons even though they are the subject of the book — inadvertently demonstrating that the cartoons are still shaking the world, and the story is not over.

Klausen gave a talk to FPRI’s History Institute for Teachers on Islam, Islamism, and Democratic Values on Counterterrorism and the Integration of Islam in Europe in July 2006. For essays, vidoes, and lesson plans drawn from the History Institute on Islam, visit www.fpri.org/education/islamism.

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