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Kiser s book is an attempt to find an answer to what is perhaps the central question of our humanity: How to live with our neighbor? What is the meaning of community? The lives of these monks gives thought provoking answers. Maybe we should all study the Benedictine Rule.

Anne Aldrich, East Hampton Star

Mr. Kiser' work is beautifully researched, and very, very difficult to put down. It serves a dual purpose, each one worthy of a book on its own. The first is to provide a contrast between the terrorist factions who abuse Islam as a tool, and the people of Tibhirine, who practice Islam as brotherhood.

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Islamic Horizons Magazine

As people seek to make sense of post sept 11, this wonderful book offers much needed perspective..the inward struggle and conviction portrayed ennoble those who read it.

-Bishop William Swing of California, United Religions Initiative

This is the best book about Algeria in the 1990s that I have read.

Christopher Taylor, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Drew University

This book is not the first written about the monks of Tibhirine. It is the first of this importance published in English, but it could well be the best among all those written in any language so far. I was struck by the accurate rendering of the portraits of each of the monks, by the description of both the local and national contexts [of the events described], by the depth of his comprehension of the Cistercian calling; and of the vocation of our Algeria Church. I think it certainly merits being translated into French. Thank you to the author for the conscientiousness of his work, and to have written about this drama in a manner that it deserves.

-Gilles Nicolas, Priest in Diocese of Algiers

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Amazon Readers Award The Monks of Tibhirine a Five Star Rating ()

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Talks and Interviews

On Jan 29 the author gave a talk entitled "What can Americans Learn from the French Expierence in Algeria?". The talk was hosted by Alliance Francaise of Washington DC and the Algerian Embassy.

Mar 10-- (7:00pm) "Living one's Faith". Hartford Seminary, 77 Sherman Street, Hartford Conn.

Mar 30 (11:00AM- 1:00PM) -- Book reading and talk Islamic Center of Long Island 835 Brush Hollow Rd Westbury NY.

April 29, 12-2:00 PM the author will give a talk re: "Algeria as microcosm of the Muslim world" at Columbia University's School for International Affairs

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"Best Read of the Year"

says Brother Patrick Hart, editor of the Thomas Merton Journals in the October 11th edition of the National Catholic Reporter

The Paperback edition is now available!

Foreign Editions

The German translation of The Monks of Tibhirine (Die Moenche von Tibhirine) by Ansata Verlag is now available.

Muslim American View

Widely Praised, The Monks of Tibhirine hit the Islamic press in September and October following the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) meeting in Washington DC over Labor Day.

Islamic Horizons, Dawn, Sufism and others hail the book as a great advance for helping Muslims and Christians better understand one another and see how much they share.

Useful for University Students

"Your book would be good for my students because it interweaves religious and monastic history with modern social and political issues. It is also excitingly written and carries the reader along in a suspenseful way--just right for undergraduates trying to understand the difficulties facing Christian- Muslim relations in a radicalized setting."

-Sidney Griffith, Prof of Semitic Languages, Catholic University

This is the best book about Algeria in the 1990s that I have read.

-Christopher Taylor, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Drew University

"I felt bereft when I finished ... The Monks of Tibhirine is a well-researched, thoroughly engaging story of the Christian presence in Algeria today. This is an important book for the informed reader and for specialists interested in Islam, its relation to Christianity, and in the delicate dance of politics and religion in Muslim societies."

-Dawn Chatty, Dulverton Senior Research Fellow, International Development Center, Oxford University