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Author
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
In a tense and riveting narrative, 'The ISIS Hostage' details freelance photographer Daniel Rye's 13-month ordeal at the hands of Islamic State after he was captured in Syria and the misery inflicted upon him, and 19 other hostages, by the British guards, which included Jihadi John. This compelling account also follows Daniel's family and the nerve-wracking negotiations with his kidnappers. It traces their horrifying journey through impossible dilemmas...
Author
Publisher
The Bodley Head
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
From Algeria to China, from Yemen to Europe, Islamic militancy appears stronger, more widespread and more threatening than ever. But what exactly is the nature of the new threat we now face? Drawing on almost two decades of first-hand expertise alongside a vast range of sources from intelligence officials to militants themselves, this book debunks widespread myths and outdated notions and explains with total clarity what today's many diverse forms...
Author
Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In 'The Beekeeper of Sinjar', the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail tells the harrowing stories of women from across Iraq who have managed to escape the clutches of ISIS. Since 2014, ISIS has been persecuting the Yazidi people, killing or enslaving those who won't convert to Islam. These women have lost their families and loved ones, along with everything they've ever known. Dunya Mikhail weaves together the women's tales of endurance and...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Twenty year-old Melodie, a recent convert to Islam, meets the leader of an ISIS brigade on Facebook. In 48 hours he has 'fallen in love' with her, calls her every hour, urges her to marry him, join him in Syria in a life of paradise - and join his jihad. She discovers how ISIS entraps ordinary people, like teenage girls from Bethnal Green.
Author
Publisher
Scribe
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
In early 2014, the Islamic State clinched its control of Raqqa in Syria. Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, urged Muslims around the world to come join the caliphate. Having witnessed the brutal oppression of the Assad regime in Syria, and moved to fight for justice, thousands of men and women heeded his call. At the heart of this story is a cast of unforgettable young women who responded. Emma, from Germany; Sharmeena from Bethnal Green, London; Nour...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements, especially ISIS, are starting to emerge. In military operations in June 2014 they were far more successful than Al Qaeda ever were, taking territory that reaches across borders and includes the city of Mosul. The reports of their military coordination and brutality are chilling. While they call for the formation...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The driver was sweating as his explosive-filled pickup truck sped along a rain-slicked Baghdad highway toward a neighbourhood bustling with open-air markets. And he had another reason for panic - he was a spy who thought his cover had been blown. 'The Spymaster of Baghdad' is the story of the top-secret Iraqi intelligence unit that infiltrated the Islamic State. More so than that of any foreign power, the information they gathered turned the tide...
Author
Publisher
Mirror Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Former Royal Marine Jim Matthews gives up a lucrative career teaching English in Saudi Arabia, and returns to northern Syria to fight ISIS alongside the Kurdish forces. But why, after years as a revolutionary, left leaning, anti-war protestor does he find himself pulled once more into a conflict zone. Does he miss war?
Author
Publisher
Virago
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
One morning in October 2013, 19-year-old Ayan Juma and her 16-year-old sister Leila left their family home in Oslo. Later that day they sent an email to their parents saying how they had decided to travel to Syria. They'd been planning for months. By the time their desperate father Sadiq tracks them to Turkey, they have already crossed the border. But Sadiq is determined to find them. What follows is the gripping, heartbreaking story of a family ripped...
Author
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
As Syria imploded in civil war in 2011, Kurdish volunteers in the north rose up to free their homeland from centuries of repression and create a progressive sanctuary of tolerance and democracy. To the medievalists of ISIS, this was an affront, so they amassed 10,000 men, heavy artillery, tanks, mortars and ranks of suicide bombers to crush the uprising. Against them stood 2,500 volunteer fighters armed with 40-year-old rifles. There was only one...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Second edition.
Language
English
Description
In the revised and expanded second edition of 'The New Middle East', renowned Middle East scholar James L. Gelvin explains how in the aftermath of the collapse of the USSR, the American invasion of Iraq, and the Arab uprisings of 2010-11, a new Middle East has emerged.
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