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A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS
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Include books by the same authorRock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World
Robin Wright · 307 pages
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 wh
Hello, Bastar - The Untold Story of India's Maoist Movement
Rahul Pandita · 202 pages
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
George Packer · 448 pages
Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia
Ahmed Rashid · 281 pages
The terrorist attacks of September 11 have turned the world's attention to areas of the globe about which we know very little. The author turns his skills as an investigative journalist to the five Central Asian republics adjacent to Afghanistan.
And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
Richard Engel · 241 pages
"Based on two decades of reporting, NBC's chief foreign correspondent's riveting story of the Middle East revolutions, the Arab Spring, war, and terrorism seen up-close--sometimes dangerously so. When he was just twenty-three, a recent graduate of Stanford University, Richard Engel set off to Cairo with $2,000 and dreams of being a reporter. Shortly thereafter he was working freelance for Arab new
From Beirut to Jerusalem
Thomas L. Friedman · 560 pages
Examines Israeli-Palestinian relations, the PLO, Israeli politics, Lebanese factions, news reporting from the Middle East, and other issues of the Middle East.
China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power
Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn · 510 pages
"When China wakes, it will shake the world," Napoleon Bonaparte once remarked. That moment is now at hand. And in this book Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the Pulitzer Prize winning Beijing correspondents of The New York Times, bring to life the people, the politics, and the paradoxes of China as never before. China Wakes combines groundbreaking reportage with the authors' personal account
The Invention of Russia
Arkady Ostrovsky · 350 pages
Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan
“Regime Change is exceptional. It transcends its genre. . . . the book is packed with news that will stay news. . . . This is reporting of consequence.”\ \ —David Remnick, The New Yorker\ \ \ \ “A flabbergasting feat of political reporting.”\ \ —Tina Brown\ \ “Riveting and richly textured. . . . What the authors add is the vivid detail that makes these events feel actual. They wrest real
The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda
Peter L. Bergen · 502 pages
ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror
Michael Weiss, Hassan Hassan · 341 pages
"How did a group of religious fanatics, clad in black pajamas and armed to the teeth, manage to carve out a violent, fundamentalist "Islamic state" in wide swaths of Syria and Iraq? How did the widely celebrated revolution against Syrian dictator Bashar Assad descend into a movement led by a psychopathically violent band of jihadists dedicated to the destruction of America? And just who are these
Intent to Destroy: Russia’s Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine
Eugene Finkel · 336 pages
A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa
Howard W. French · 280 pages
Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America's Growing Conspiracist Underground
Jonathan Kay · 340 pages
"America is awash with conspiracy theories, and the shared view of reality we once took for granted has been permanently shattered. Jonathan Kay uses the 9/11 Truth movement as a springboard to examine this fragmented national mindset"--
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
Jason Stearns · 416 pages
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
Joby Warrick · 384 pages
"In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread with the unwitting aid of two American presidents. When the government of Jordan granted amnesty to a group of political prisoners in 1999, it little realized that among them was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a terrorist ma
ISIS: The State of Terror
Jessica Stern, J.M. Berger · 385 pages
"Two of America's leading experts on violent extremism and terrorism explain the genesis, evolution, and implications of today's most barbaric jihadist army, Islamic State--and how we can fight it"-- Though terrorist groups are a fixture of contemporary politics and warfare, the world has never witnessed the degree of sheer brutality demonstrated by the group know as ISIS-- the Islamic State of I
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
Michela Wrong · 353 pages
Known as "the Leopard," the president of Zaire for thirty-two years, Mobutu Sese Seko, showed all the cunning of his namesake -- seducing Western powers, buying up the opposition, and dominating his people with a devastating combination of brutality and charm. While the population was pauperized, he plundered the country's copper and diamond resources, downing pink champagne in his jungle palace l
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Jonathan Blitzer · 544 pages
The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
Ron Suskind · 431 pages
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of "The Price of Loyalty" and "The One Percent Doctrine" returns with an election year account of the looming national security crisis that America faces right now.
Depends What You Mean By Extremist
John Safran · 304 pages
No one turns up where they're not wanted quite like John Safran. In this hilarious and disorienting adventure he gets among our diverse community of white nationalists, ISIS supporters, anarchists and more, digging away at the contradictions that many would prefer be left unexamined. Who is this black puppet-master among the white nationalists? And this Muslim fundamentalist who geeks out on Monty
This Unquiet Land
Barkha Dutt · 336 pages
India's fault lines run wide and deep. Some of them go back centuries, others are of comparatively recent origin. The myriad villains these fault lines have spawned include rapists, murderers, terrorists, prophets of religious hatred, corrupt politicians, upholders of abhorrent caste traditions, opponents of free speech and dissent, apologists for regressive cultural practices, and external advers
In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos
Richard Lloyd Parry · 336 pages