My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
Souad Mekhennet, a correspondent for The Washington Post, reflects in her memoir I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad on her encounters with some of the most notorious...
Welcome to the 9/11 Memorial Museum’s Public Programs Archive, where you can explore past programs and learn more about the continuing impact of 9/11 on the world today.
Souad Mekhennet, a correspondent for The Washington Post, reflects in her memoir I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad on her encounters with some of the most notorious...
Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and its increasingly assertive foreign policy in the Middle East directly challenge American influence. Stephen Sestanovich of the Council...
Technology has revolutionized America’s ability to surveil, track and eliminate terrorists. Brett Velicovich discusses the complexity of drone operations in his new book, Drone Warrior, and shares his...
In his memoir How to Be a Muslim: An American Story, hailed as “profound and intimate” by The Washington Post, frequent CNN commentator Haroon Moghul reveals how he struggled with his Muslim-American...
The 9/11 attacks prompted significant changes in the FBI’s counterterrorism operations in the U.S. and around the world. FBI Director Christopher Wray reflects on the Bureau’s ever-evolving fight...
Middle East expert Bernard Haykel returns to the 9/11 Memorial Museum to disentangle the latest turns in the region. From upheaval in the Saudi royal family, to the shifting alliances in Syria and the...
Come From Away is an award-winning musical that tells the story of those 7,000 stranded passengers and the people who welcomed them.
Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust discusses her book This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, in which she chronicled the impact of mass death on American society.
Historian Tor Einar Fagerland and architect Atle Aas discuss the work of creating two memorial sites that commemorate the July 22, 2011 terrorist attack in Olso and on nearby Utøya island.
Rosebud Ben-Oni, Noel Quiñones, and Alice Quinn are joined by Stuyvesant High School scholars to reflect on the 15 years that have passed since the 2001 attacks, through poetry and conversation.
America’s initial military response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks involved a handful of American Special Operations forces secretly sent into Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer, president of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, and Samar Kaukab, executive director of Arete at the University of Chicago, discuss how religion and religious leaders...
On 9/11, local journalists suddenly found themselves on the front lines, covering a catastrophe with global and historical significance.
New York Times author and CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen discusses his latest book, United States of Jihad: Investigating America’s Homegrown Terrorists.
The principal architects of the 9/11 Memorial, the Flight 93 National Memorial, and the Pentagon Memorial, reflect on the relationship between architecture and more.