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Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Inspired by true events, [it] follows an undercover British journalist on her quest to bait and expose a terrorist recruiter through social media, while trying not to be sucked into becoming a militant extremist herself"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A young French journalist's riveting and unprecedented look at how today's most ruthless terrorists use social media and technology to reach disaffected youth--witnessed through the undercover investigation that led to her deep involvement with a key member of ISIS, "--Novelist.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The riveting story of two sisters' journey to the Islamic State and the father who tries to bring them home. Asne Seierstad puts the problem of radicalization into painfully human terms, using instant messages and other primary sources to reconstruct a family's crisis from the inside. Eventually, she takes us into the hellscape of the Syrian civil war, as Sadiq risks his life in pursuit of his daughters, refusing to let them disappear into the maelstrom....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Dimitri Bontinck lived every parent's worst nightmare. His teenage son, introduced to Islam by his girlfriend, fell into the clutches of a radical mosque. Dimitri watched helplessly as his son, Jay, transformed from a gentle boy to a soldier in training, wearing traditional robes and following a strict diet. Completely brainwashed, Jay snuck out of the house and traveled to Syria, all but vanishing. Too late, Dimitri learned that their country, Belgium,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents a look at "homegrown" Islamist terrorism, from 9/11 to the present, discusses the perpetrators who have acted both in the U.S. and abroad, and examines the controversial tactics used to track potential terrorists.--Publisher's description.
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Arabic
Description
Talal Derki returned to his Syrian homeland where he gained the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His camera focuses primarily on the children, providing an extremely rare insight into what it means to grow up with a father whose only dream is to establish an Islamic caliphate. Osama and his brother Ayman both love and admire their father and obey his words, but while Osama seems content to follow the...
Author
Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The attacks in Paris in January and November 2015 heralded the beginning of a new wave of terrorism� one rooted in the ongoing conflict in Syria and Iraq. As ISIS seeks to expand its reach in the Middle East, its territory serves as a base for training and operations for a new generation of jihadis. Thousands of young people from the West, primarily from Europe, have travelled to join ISIS, re-emerging as hardened fighters with military training...
Author
Publisher
Potomac Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Describes incidents of Americans volunteering to fight in the name of Islam, including Americans who participated in the 1979 siege of Mecca and conflicts in Lebanon, Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Somalia, and profiling Abdullah Rashid, Mohammed Loay Bayazid, Ismail Royer, Adam Gadahn, and Anwar Awlaki.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Hacking ISIS will explain and illustrate in graphic detail how ISIS produces religious cultism, recruits vulnerable young people of all religions and nationalities and disseminates their brutal social media to the world. More, the book will map out the cyberspace level tactics on how ISIS spreads its terrifying content, how it distributes tens of thousands of pieces of propaganda daily and is winning the battle in Cyberspace and how to stop it in...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Islamic State stunned the world when it overran an area the size of Britain on both sides of the Iraq-Syria border in a matter of weeks and proclaimed the birth of a new Caliphate. In this timely and important book, Abdel Bari Atwan draws on his unrivaled knowledge of the global jihadi movement and Middle Eastern geopolitics to reveal the origins and modus operandi of Islamic State. Based on extensive field research and exclusive interviews with...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This is the definitive account of the career of Anwar al-Awlaki, the most influential Western exponent of violent jihad. Drawing on extensive research among al-Awlaki's followers, including interviews with convicted terrorists, Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens explains how the radical preacher established his network and why his message resonated"--
Author
Series
Adelphi papers volume no. 399
Publisher
Routledge for the International Institute for Strategic Studies
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In Britain alone, several thousand young Muslims are thought to be part of violent extremist networks. How did they become involved? What are the mechanisms and dynamics through which European Muslims join al-Qaeda and groups inspired by al-Qaeda? This paper explains the processes whereby European Muslims are recruited into the Islamist militant movement. It reveals that although overt recruitment has been driven underground, prisons and other "places...
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