9/11 changed the world forever. This is the story of the brutality that followed

Posted: 12th September 2026

It’s been 25 years since 9/11. What lasting imprint did the attacks leave on the global political order?

Season of Wolves argues that the post-9/11 era has 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 last 25 years.

Through a comprehensive recasting of the events of September 11th to the mid-2020s he traces the emergence of a new political order marked by war, racism, propaganda, authoritarianism and technological oppression.

Season of Wolves lays bare the structures and forces that continue to define our times.

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Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou (1968 – 2024) was a political historian, diplomat and acclaimed public intellectual. His books include a trilogy of the post-9/11 era: Contre-Croisade – Le 11 Septembre et le Retournement du monde, Understanding Al Qaeda and A Theory of ISIS. His writing brought a fresh approach to the studies of extremism, conflict, political violence and peace-building. He was a committed pan-Africanist and pan-Arabist. He worked as Professor of International History at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and served as Mauritania’s youngest foreign minister in 2008.