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Yaroslav Trofimov describes his extensive research for The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of al-Qaeda, and describes his efforts to pierce the veil of secrecy which continues to cover the events that unfolded in Mecca during 1979.

The idea behind the book was simple: many people with interest in the Middle East know that something important happened in Mecca back in 1979, but virtually nobody knows precisely what.

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A native of Ukraine and a graduate of New York University, he joined the Journal in and previously served as Rome, Middle East and Singapore-based Asia.

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Yaroslav Trofimov is a columnist and senior correspondent at The Wall Street Journal, where he writes the weekly Middle East Crossroads column.

Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent at The Wall Street Journal.

The more passing references to the Mecca uprising I heard while traveling in the region, the more I was intrigued.

In late 2005, I started to delve into the scarce material that’s in the public domain. It hit me: the events of these two turbulent weeks in late 1979 were a true turning point in modern history.

The story of the siege of Mecca really is a prequel to everything we know about Al Qaeda, a prequel that allows us to understand today’s