Last Wednesday night, as part of our TribLive events series, we were fortunate enough to host the Texas premiere of a brand-new documentary, My Trip to Al-Qaeda. The film, directed by Academy Award-winner Alex Gibney, stars native Texan Lawrence Wright, the longtime New Yorker writer and the author of The Looming Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book about 9/11 and its aftermath . The book, published in 2006, spawned a one-man play called "My Trip to Al-Qaeda," in which Wright reflects on his reporting on the war on terror and his time and interactions in dangerous places overseas. The play, in ...

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