Loretta Napoleoni — The New Economy of Terror Before and After 9/11


DATE
Thursday January 18, 2007
TIME
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

TERROR – THE SERIES

Loretta Napoleoni is an expert on the financing of terrorism and is known internationally for having calculated the size of the terror economy. She is the author of the best-selling book Terror, Incorporated (Seven Stories Press), Her latest book is Insurgent Iraq : Al-Zarqawi and the New Generation (Seven Stories Press). Dr. Napoleoni was a Fulbright scholar at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C., and a Rotary Scholar at the London School of Economics (LSE). Born and raised in Rome, she has an M.Phil. in Terrorism from LSE, a Master’s in International Relations from SAIS, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rome.

Organized by Manuel Pina and William Wood, Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, The University of British Columbia.