Mohamed Atta on the Magic Mountain

Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2008 (144):39-51 (2008)
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What we know of Mohamed Atta has become paradigmatic for the new breed of Islamic neo-fundamentalist terrorists. Before coming to the United States to organize and prepare the attack on civilians in New York and Washington, Atta was a student of urban planning at the Technical University of Hamburg–Harburg, situated in a suburb of the notably liberal and tolerant German port city of Hamburg. It was there that the young Egyptian completed a Masters in Urban Planning with a thesis in which he assails the corrupting influence of modern, Western architecture, particularly skyscrapers. It was also there, in a tiny..

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