‘Powerful ... The nightmarish beginning of this century has never been so acutely dissected and sensitively presented as it is in this tour-de-force’ Ilan Pappé, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
‘Mohamedou understood earlier than most that 9/11 marked the beginning of a new political and geopolitical age. This is his sweeping account of how war, fear, technology and power reshaped our world’ Ghassan Salame, Professor, Paris Institute of Political Studies
‘A patient and precise account of the horrors of endless wars and the malice of mass surveillance’ Hamid Dabashi, Professor, Columbia University
What political forces shaped the world in the early twenty-first century? What lasting imprint did the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States leave on the global order?
Season of Wolves argues that the post-9/11 era has so far been overwhelmingly understood through the language of terrorism and security. Against these state-spoken and media-echoed narratives, Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou reconstructs a deeper history of the first quarter of the twenty-first century. Through a comprehensive recasting of the events of 11 September to the mid-2020s, and an analysis of their global interrelatedness, he traces the emergence of a new political order marked by war, racism, propaganda, authoritarianism and technological oppression. Bringing together political, artistic socio-economic, cultural and ethical perspectives, Season of Wolves offers a panoramic account of the world remade in the aftermath of 9/11 and lays bare the structures and forces that continue to define our times.
Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou (1968—2024) was Professor and Deputy Director at the Geneva Graduate Institute. He was the author of A Theory of ISIS and Understanding Al Qaeda. He was previously Associate Director of Harvard University’s Programme on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, a Visiting Professor at Sciences Po Paris and the University of St Gallen, and Mauritania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.