I was told to come alone : my journey behind the lines of jihad / Souad Mekhennet.
Mekhennet, Souad, author.
2017
HV6433.I722 I8562 2017 (Mapit)
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Title I was told to come alone : my journey behind the lines of jihad / Souad Mekhennet.
Author Mekhennet, Souad, author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9781627798976 (hardback)
1627798978 (hardback)
9781627798969 (ebook)
162779896X (ebook)
9781250180575
1250180570
Published New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2017.
Copyright ©2017
Language English
Description x, 354 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number HV6433.I722 I8562 2017
Alternate Call Number BIO026000 POL037000 REL037000
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.3250956
Summary The journalist who broke the "Jihadi John" story draws on her personal experience to bridge the gap between the Muslim world and the West and explain the rise of Islamic radicalism. Souad Mekhennet has lived her entire life between worlds. The daughter of a Turkish mother and a Moroccan father, she was born and educated in Germany and has worked for several American newspapers. Since the 9/11 attacks she has reported stories among the most dangerous members of her religion. When she is told to come alone to an interview, she never knows what awaits at her destination. In this book, Mekhennet seeks to answer the question, "What is in the minds of these young jihadists, and how can we understand and defuse it?" She has unique and exclusive access into the world of jihad and sometimes her reporting has put her life in danger. We accompany her from Germany to the heart of the Muslim world -- from the Middle East to North Africa, from Sunni Pakistan to Shia Iran, and the Turkish/ Syrian border region where ISIS is a daily presence. She then returns to Europe, first in London, where she uncovers the identity of the notorious ISIS executioner "Jihadi John," and then in Paris and Brussels, where terror has come to the heart of Western civilization. Too often we find ourselves unable to see the human stories behind the headlines, and so Mekhennet -- with a foot in many different camps -- is the ideal guide to take us where no Western reporter can go.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-339) and index.
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Prologue: Meeting ISIS: Turkey, 2014
Stranger in a strange land: Germany and Morocco, 1978-93
The Hamburg cell: Germany, 1994-2003
A country with a divided soul: Iraq, 2003-4
A call from Khaled el-Masri: Germany and Algeria, 2004-6
Even if I die today or tomorrow: Lebanon, 2007
The lost boys of Zarqa: Jordan, 2007
The value of a life: Algeria, 2008
Guns and roses: Pakistan, 2009
Mukhabarat: Egypt, 2011
This is not an Arab spring: Germany and Tunisia, 2011
Threats: Bahrain, Iran, and Germany, 2011-13
Boys for the Caliphate: Germany, 2013
Brides for the Caliphate: Germany and France, 2014-15
The search for an Islamist Beatle, or Finding Jihadi John: Britain, 2014-15
Terror comes home: Austria, France, and Belgium, 2015-16
Epilogue: The deepest cut: Germany and Morocco, 2016.

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