Cheryl Benard

1953

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Previously she was the research director of a European think tank, the Boltzmann Institute of Politics and prior to that, she taught Political Science at the University of Vienna. She is a novelist and a widely published author on topics including popular sociology, refugees, women in nation-building, youth radicalization in the European Diaspora, and humanitarian aid. Her books have been translated into many other languages and some were best-sellers in Europe. She and Khalilzad have two sons, Alexander and Maximilian. Benard also worked an actor in German films as a child. She and Editorial Schlaffer contributed the piece "Benevolent despotism versus the contemporary feminist movement" to the 1984 anthology Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women"s Movement Anthology, edited by Robin Morgan. As part of an investigation into allegations of money laundering by Benard"s husband, former United States. official Zalmay Khalizad, her Austrian bank account was frozen in February 2014. Mississippi Benard was subsequently cleared by the Austrian court and the freezing of her accounts was found to have been illegal. Prior to the announcement of the court decision, information about the investigation was leaked to the press, allegedly the result of court documents having been disposed of unshredded in the general trash and found by scavenging bloggers. Benard"s most recent book, Eurojihad - Patterns of Islamist Radicalization and Terrorism in Europe, with Angel Rabasa, was published by Cambridge University Press in November 2014.

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Moghul Buffet (Soho Crime) Paperback - July 1, 2003

(Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)

Turning on the Girls

(In the wickedly amusing Turning on the Girls, Cheryl Bena...)

Civil Democratic Islam: Partners, Resources, and Strategies

(In the face of Islam's own internal struggles, it is not ...)

Moghul Buffet (Soho Crime)

(An American businessman visiting Peshawar, Pakistan, vani...)

Moghul Buffet (Soho Crime) by Cheryl Benard (2003-07-01)

Civil Democratic Islam: Partners, Resources, and Strategies by Cheryl Benard (2003-12-29)

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Education

Benard received her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Vienna and a Bachelor of Arts from the American University of Beirut.

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Previously she was the research director of a European think tank, the Boltzmann Institute of Politics and prior to that, she taught Political Science at the University of Vienna. She is a novelist and a widely published author on topics including popular sociology, refugees, women in nation-building, youth radicalization in the European Diaspora, and humanitarian aid. Her books have been translated into many other languages and some were best-sellers in Europe.

She and Khalilzad have two sons, Alexander and Maximilian.

Benard also worked an actor in German films as a child. She and Editorial Schlaffer contributed the piece "Benevolent despotism versus the contemporary feminist movement" to the 1984 anthology Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women"s Movement Anthology, edited by Robin Morgan.

As part of an investigation into allegations of money laundering by Benard"s husband, former United States. official Zalmay Khalizad, her Austrian bank account was frozen in February 2014. Mississippi Benard was subsequently cleared by the Austrian court and the freezing of her accounts was found to have been illegal.

Prior to the announcement of the court decision, information about the investigation was leaked to the press, allegedly the result of court documents having been disposed of unshredded in the general trash and found by scavenging bloggers.

Benard"s most recent book, Eurojihad - Patterns of Islamist Radicalization and Terrorism in Europe, with Angel Rabasa, was published by Cambridge University Press in November 2014.