Introduction

The Mahdi is a techno-national security thriller. It presents Islam to the West from the perspective of the liberal Muslim and the liberal Jew, seen through the lens of a Bedouin-American badass. It is about Israel and the Middle East and is a tale of the liberal Jewish community and world legal opinion in a struggle against Israel’s Orthodox right wing. The role of Artificial Intelligence in warfare and education is fundamental to the story. Fiction brings a quantum computer in a cell phone and a chatbot named Emilie who vastly outshines the ChatGPT of today. The Mahdi was completed in June of 2023, so the recent Gaza combat give it color and immediacy, with a solution more realistic than we are seeing today in Gaza.

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The Moroccan desert south of Tangier was hot and dry, as was usual at this time of year, with a wind stirring fine sand from the Sahara to the east and south. Shadows cast by the northern hills inched across a rock-encrusted sandscape toward a tented encampment, where a large group of men were seated in a circle between two large, ornate tents. Camels were tethered just beyond the circle, and an assortment of trucks were parked nearby. On the far side of the tents, women worked around several cooking fires, watching the men. ... view entire excerpt...

Discussion Questions

Discussion Questions from the Author:

1. How is the path chosen in The Mahdi better for Israel than the path Israel has chosen, post Oct 7, 2023

2. Is the treatment of the orthodox right, the Haredim, unfair or anti-semitic?

3. How much does the fictitious quantum cell phone, the Kphone, add to the story and what would there be without such a device and capability. Would the EMP capability be enough to carry the Mahdi story?

4. Are the sex scenes realistic and within the acceptable bounds of a thriller? How should they be made better?

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