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The terror years : from al-Qaeda to the Islamic State

By - Wright, Lawrence, 1947-
Floor - Floor 1
Published - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. ©2016
ISBN 10 - 0385352050
ISBN 13 - 9780385352055
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Qaida (Organization) , IS (Organization) , Terrorism--Middle East. , Terrorism--Religious aspects--Islam.
Shelf No - 19
Call Number - 363.325 WRI
Physical Description - xiii, 366 pages ; 25 cm
Book Information
Several "pieces first published in The New Yorker recall the path terror in the Middle East has taken from the rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s to the recent beheadings of reporters and aid workers by ISIS ... They include an ... impression of Saudi Arabia, a kingdom of silence under the control of the religious police; the Syrian film industry, then compliant at the edges but already exuding a feeling of the barely masked fury that erupted into civil war; [and] the 2006-11 Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza, a study in disparate values of human lives. Others continue to look into al-Qaeda as it forms a master plan for its future, experiences a rebellion from within the organization, and spins off a growing web of terror in the world"--

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