Robin B Wright
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For a generation, Muslim extremists have targeted Americans in an escalation of terror that culminated in the September 11 attacks. Updated with new chapters on Afghanistan and the broader Islamic movement, this book explains the roots, the motives, and the goals of the Islamic resurgence. The author talked to terrorists, militant religious leaders, and fighters from Beirut to Islamabad and Kabul. Their voices of rage reverberate right up to the attacks...
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Pub. Date
2011
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Written by a veteran reporter, this is an up close portrait of the fierce struggle between moderates and extremists taking place within the Islamic world today. Why don't Muslims challenge the violent extremists among them? Well, they do. Here she cites the clerics, comedians, and rappers who challenge al Qaeda violence; the women who are launching liberation movements; and the former jihadists who openly reject violence. These Muslims all want to...
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Pub. Date
2008
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With a solid, thirty-five-year background in Middle East reporting, Wright offers an extraordinary tour of this volatile and restless region--the ideas and movements driving change across the region, the obstacles facing the transformation of the Middle East, and the players and events in Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Morocco, Turkey, the Gulf states, and the Palestinian territories--that translate into a coherent vision of what lies ahead.