[PDF/ePub] The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State Writen - Lawrence Wright
The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. Here, in ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker, he recalls the path that 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.The Terror Years draws on several articles he wrote while researching The Looming Tower, as well as many that he's written since, following where and how al-Qaeda and its core cultlike beliefs have morphed and spread. They include a portrait of the "man behind bin Laden," Ayman al-Zawahiri, and the tumultuous Egypt he helped spawn; an indelible impression of Saudi Arabia, a kingdom of silence under the control of the religious police; the Syrian film industry, at the time compliant at the edges but already exuding a feeling of the barely masked fury that erupted into civil war; the 2006-11
Product details: The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
Author : Lawrence Wright
Pages : 464 pages
Publisher : Vintage
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ISBN-10 : 0804170037
ISBN-13 : 9780804170031
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