The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State [First edition] 9780385352055, 0385352050, 9780385352079

With the Pulitzer Prizewinning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major jour

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The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State [First edition]
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"Eleven powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker recall the path terror in the Middle East has taken from

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Dahlan offers an alternative vision of Islamic governance through the history and promise of the Hijaz, the first state

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Examines the complex and difficult legacies of the Iraq war of 2003 and their critical relevance today In March 2003, a

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Recounts the history of the Syrian Rojava Kurds, a democratic secular society whose all-women militia was instrumental i

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The dramatic rise of the Islamist State (IS) in 2014 spelled a game changer in the West’s fight against Islamic jihad. F

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Since it erupted onto the world stage in 2009, people have asked, what is Boko Haram, and what does it stand for? Is the

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Since it erupted onto the world stage in 2009, people have asked, what is Boko Haram, and what does it stand for? Is the

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As an early contribution to the neglected field of Arabic paleography, assembles all published, dated Arabic texts from

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On the eve of the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel was nineteen years old and as much an adolescent as the average nineteen-y

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