Publisher Description
Initially dismissed by US President Barack Obama, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has shocked the world by conquering massive territories in both countries and promising to create a vast new Muslim caliphate that observes the strict dictates of Sharia law. In ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, American journalist Michael Weiss and Syrian analyst Hassan Hassan explain how these violent extremists evolved from a nearly defeated Iraqi insurgent group into a jihadi army of international volunteers who have conquered territory equal to the size of Great Britain. Drawing on original interviews with former US military officials and current ISIS fighters, the authors also reveal the internecine struggles within the movement itself, as well as ISIS’s bloody hatred of Shiite Muslims, which is generating another sectarian war in the region. Past is prologue and America’s legacy in the Middle East is sowing a new generation of terror.
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“The first book to fully explain what ISIS is seeking and why they are such a threat to the world. An absolute must-read for anyone who wants to understand the risk we all face from radical Islam.”
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Douglas E. Schoen, author of The Russia-China Axis: The New Cold War and America’s Crisis of Leadership
About the Authors
Michael Weiss is a columnist for Foreign Policy, the Daily Beast, and NOW Lebanon. He is also a fellow at the Institute of Modern Russia where he is the editor-in-chief of the Interpreter, an online news and translation journal covering Russian foreign policy and the ongoing war in Ukraine. He has covered the Syria uprising since its inception in 2011 and reported from the front lines of Aleppo in 2012 for Foreign Affairs magazine.
Hassan Hassan is associate fellow at Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa Program, and coauthor of ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, a New York Times and Washington Post bestseller. He is a columnist and former deputy comment editor for The National newspaper in Abu Dhabi. He focuses on Syria, Iraq, and the Gulf States. He also follows Salafist, jihadist, and Islamist groups in the Middle East and North Africa. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, and New York Times, among others. He received an MA in International Relations from the University of Nottingham in the UK.
About Qarie Marshall
Qarie Marshall is an Earphones Award–winning narrator. He has narrated more than thirty series for the Discovery Channel, TLC, and the BBC, as well as providing the in-flight programming for Virgin Atlantic Airlines and BBC radio plays. He has voiced over eighty video games for the PlayStation and Xbox and was a guest voice on Comedy Central’s Drawn Together. He was made an associate artist of the Purple Rose Theatre in 2007.