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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Muslim Revolt	Roger Hardy	This book ffers the reader a subtler grasp of today's Islamic societies and their discontents, explaining how the autocratic policies of many states in the Middle East inadvertently bolster the popul…	OL15646378W
Religion, national identity, and confessional politics in Lebanon	Robert G. Rabil	"Tracing the rise of Islamism in Lebanon and its attempt to Islamize society and state by the reverse integration of society and state into the project of Islamism, this book looks at Lebanon against…	OL16175600W
They Say We Are Infidels	Mindy Belz	“Everywhere militants were blowing up Christians, their churches, their shops. They threatened them with kidnapping. They promised to take their children. The message to these ‘infidels’: You have no…	OL17342471W
The Second Arab awakening	Marwan Muasher	"This important book is not about immediate events or policies or responses to the Arab Spring. Instead, it takes a long, judicious view of political change in the Arab world, beginning with the firs…	OL17874683W
The kill list	Frederick Forsyth	When a terrorist known as the Preacher targets for assassination a retired Marine general, whose son is TOSA's top hunter of men, the terrorist becomes the hunted -- landing him at the top of TOSA's …	OL19967561W
Government zero	Michael Savage	Argues that progressives and radical Islamists are working toward similar ends by compromising democratic principles to instill a government of absolute power without representation.	OL20015119W
ISIS	Fawaz A. Gerges	"The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. What explains the rise of ISIS and what does it portend for the future of the Middl…	OL20029904W
The Chibok Girls	Helon Habila	"Acclaimed novelist Helon Habila, who grew up in northern Nigeria, returned to Chibok and gained intimate access to the families of the kidnapped to offer a devastating account of a tragedy that stun…	OL20048087W
Black Album	Hanif Kureishi	Shahid, a young man from the provinces, comes to London after the death of his father. He finds himself embroiled in a battle between liberalism and fundamentalism in a London so noisily exuberant th…	OL21117423W
Horses of god	Mahi Binebine	On the outskirts of Casablanca, next to the dump, is the shantytown of Sidi Moumen, where Yachine and his ten brothers grew up, in the aimless chaos of drugs, violence, unemployment, and despair. The…	OL22073641W
The great theft	Khaled Abou El Fadl	Despite President George W. Bush's assurances that Islam is a peaceful religion and that all good Muslims hunger for democracy, confusion persists and far too many Westerners remain convinced that Mu…	OL2214232W
Under the black flag	Sami M. Moubayed	The Islamic State movement (ISIS/IS) burst onto the world stage in 2014. From its heartland in Syria, where it arose from the chaos of the Syrian Revolt, the organisation has expanded in ideology and…	OL26189679W
How to Win a Cosmic War	Reza Aslan	Lays out, for the first time, a comprehensive definition of the movement behind and surrounding al-Qaeda and the like, a global ideology properly term Jihadism.	OL26733643W
While Europe slept	Bruce Bawer	The subtitle is: "How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within"	OL2675757W
Terrorist Training Camps in Iran	National Council of Resistance of Iran U.S. Representative Office	iv, 51 pages : 23 cm	OL28387900W
America embattled	Richard Crockatt	What causes Anti- Americanism and where are its historical roots? What is the impact of 9/11 on America's sense of itself and its role in the world? Is America paradoxically a victim of its own polit…	OL3477409W
The war on terrorism	David Downing	Chronicles terrorist activity throughout the world in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries, particularly the 9/11 attacks and response to them, emphasizing the causes and solutions.	OL3500926W
The Bin Ladens	Steve Coll	The rise and rise of the Bin Laden family is one of the great stories of the twentieth century; its repercussions have already deeply marked the twenty-first. Until now, however, it is a story that h…	OL3902012W
Riders of the pale horse	T. Davis Bunn	348 p. : 22 cm	OL547132W
White	Christopher Whitcomb	Islamic and Christian fundamentalists unleash a well-coordinated series of attacks all across the American heartland. Stolen radioactive material, a high-level spy, a mysterious break into top-secret…	OL5734146W