'My Trip to Al-Qaeda': Lawrence Wright's journey from page to stage

Lawrence Wright's experiences in the years he spent researching The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 have become the basis for a one-man theatrical work

"...years researching his widely praised bestseller, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Lawrence Wright naturally had..."

March 9, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State

by Lawrence Wright

"...best known as the author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, a journalistic tour de..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Arts Feature by Michael King

Eve of Destruction

Lawrence Wright on 'The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9 / 11'

"...The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Books Feature by Taylor Holland

The Decoder

Lawrence Wright reflects on a decade spent exploring and explaining the Middle East in My Trip to Al-Qaeda

"...play a role in Wright's book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. In fact, director Alex..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

12 Strong

High-tech bombs and horseback soldiers fight together in the U.S. war in Afghanistan

Jan. 19, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Don Verdean

Fourth comedy feature from the pair who made Napoleon Dynamite

Dec. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Last Flight Out

Righteously mediocre stuff from the "film ministry of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association"

Aug. 13, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Deconstructing ISIS

UT professors discuss the rise of the Islamic state

March 1, 2016 News Post by Dina Samir Shehata

Not Shutting Up Anywhere

This Al Franken is your Al Franken

March 4, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

After Bin Laden

Local experts discuss how one raid reshapes the world

May 8, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two

Al Qaeda could not have hoped for a more perfect response to 9 / 11 than the American invasion of Iraq.

Jan. 31, 2003 Column by Louis Black

The Hightower Report

Corporate Creeps Bilk the Elderly; and Al Qaeda Banks on Bush

June 8, 2007 News Column by Jim Hightower

Letters at 3AM: Conditions on the Ground

This is no war on terror; we're taking sides in a civil war

Dec. 18, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Page Two

More than the insanity or weaponry of Saddam Hussein, we should fear the deepening of a rift between the Muslim world and the West. The haste with which we are building toward war in Iraq is sending the wrong message to both.

Dec. 20, 2002 Column by Louis Black

A Good Time to Be Lawrence Wright

With new book God Save Texas, The Looming Tower series on Hulu, and his play Cleo at the Alley, Lawrence Wright is the man of the moment

April 13, 2018 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Banicki

Two Brothers, Two Paths

AFS Documentary Tour: The Oath

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

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Understanding the Iraq invasion the Socratic way

June 25, 2004 Column by Louis Black

The Hightower Report

Unraveling Afghanistan; and Bachmann's Earner Overdrive

July 22, 2011 News Column by Jim Hightower

Toward an Accounting

In its unjustified rush to war, the Bush administration wants Americans to apply ample amounts of duct tape over their eyes, ears, and mouths.

Feb. 21, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...1], author of the forthcoming book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, I feel doubtful as..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Column

Doesn't Need Facts to Buy What Administration Is Selling: He Believes!

Aug. 7, 2006 Postmarks

Letter at 3AM

While remembering September 11, we owe it to ourselves to remember what its horrors have been shamelessly manipulated to obscure.

Sept. 6, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: The Sixth War

America is engaged in hostilities on six fronts

July 15, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

'It All Leads Back to Texas'

Robert Bryce on the Texas-Washington-international crony network

June 18, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

From McDonald Fantasyland

March 30, 2007 Postmarks

Unbelievable Inane Inaccurate Comparison

Aug. 15, 2006 Postmarks

Page Two

Expect the next decade to be dominated by a weak economy and precarious international politics -- the consequences of Bush's successes.

Feb. 7, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Hightower Report: World-class Political Nincompoopism

World-class political nincompoopism

May 17, 2013 News Column by Jim Hightower

UT Bomb Threat Update

University of Texas' main campus was evacuated this morning

"...from a man who claimed he was affiliated with al-Qaeda and that he had placed bombs throughout the school's..."

Sept. 14, 2012 News Post by Monica Riese

Chris Morris Talks Terrorist Comedy

UK hit Four Lions touches down in Austin

Nov. 4, 2010 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

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