Gilles Kepel

Gilles Kepel is a Professor at the Institut d'Ìätudes Politiques (IEP) in Paris and an expert on Muslim and Middle East affairs.

Europes answer to Londonistan

On 5 August, four weeks after the bombings of London’s transport network that killed 52 innocent passengers and injured 700 more, Tony Blair announced a series of anti-terror measures

By Gilles Kepel

/ 23 Aug 2005

Turkey's European problem

The European Union announces on 17 December 2004 its historic decision on whether to admit Turkey to accession talks, opening the way to EU membership for this secular, democratic state

By Gilles Kepel

/ 14 Dec 2004

The war for Muslim minds: an interview with Gilles Kepel

From Fallujah and Peshawar to Amsterdam and Paris, is radical, militant Islam winning or losing its political battle for the support of the world's Muslims? Gilles Kepel, leading

By Gilles Kepel

/ 11 Nov 2004

The trail of political Islam

In the mid-1990s, when I was visiting professor at Columbia University, a rather simple question arose which, in spite of its simplicity, was still unanswered at the time: Why did

By Gilles Kepel

/ 2 Jul 2002

Gilles Kepel

Europe&#146;s answer to Londonistan

Turkey's European problem

The war for Muslim minds: an interview with Gilles Kepel

The trail of political Islam

Europes answer to Londonistan