The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
- ISBN-10
- 0804170037
- ISBN-13
- 9780804170031
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 464
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-07
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Lawrence Wright
Description
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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