{"product_id":"the-terror-years-from-al-qaeda-to-the-islamic-state","title":"The Terror Years From al Qaeda to the Islamic State  -","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith the Pulitzer Prize winning The Looming Tower,  Lawrence \u003cbr\u003e\nWright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists \u003cbr\u003e\nwriting on terrorism in the Middle East. Here, in ten powerful pieces \u003cbr\u003e\nfirst published in The New Yorker,  he recalls the path that \u003cbr\u003e\nterror in the Middle East has taken, from the rise of al-Qaeda in the \u003cbr\u003e\n1990s to the recent beheadings of reporters and aid workers by ISIS. The Terror Years draws on several articles he wrote while researching The Looming Tower, \u003cbr\u003e\n as well as many that he s written since, following where and how \u003cbr\u003e\nal-Qaeda and its core cultlike beliefs have morphed and spread. They \u003cbr\u003e\ninclude a portrait of the man behind bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and \u003cbr\u003e\nthe tumultuous Egypt he helped spawn; an indelible impression of Saudi \u003cbr\u003e\nArabia, a kingdom of silence under the control of the religious police; \u003cbr\u003e\nthe Syrian film industry, at the time compliant at the edges but already\u003cbr\u003e\n exuding a feeling of the barely masked fury that erupted into civil \u003cbr\u003e\nwar; the 2006 11 Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza, a study in the \u003cbr\u003e\ndisparate value of human lives. Other chapters examine al-Qaeda as it \u003cbr\u003e\nforms a master plan for its future, experiences a rebellion from within \u003cbr\u003e\nthe organization, and spins off a growing web of worldwide terror. The \u003cbr\u003e\nAmerican response is covered in profiles of two FBI agents and the head \u003cbr\u003e\nof the intelligence community. The book ends with a devastating piece \u003cbr\u003e\nabout the capture and slaying by ISIS of four American journalists and \u003cbr\u003e\naid workers, and our government s failed response. On the fifteenth anniversary of 9\/11, The Terror Years\u003cbr\u003e\n is at once a unifying recollection of the roots of contemporary Middle \u003cbr\u003e\nEastern terrorism, a study of how it has grown and metastasized, and, in\u003cbr\u003e\n the scary and moving epilogue, a cautionary tale of where terrorism \u003cbr\u003e\nmight take us yet.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lawrence Wright","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44213560836156,"sku":"9780385352055","price":1497.5,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/the-terror-years-from-al-qaeda-to-the-islamic-state-9780385352055.jpg?v=1776713535","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/the-terror-years-from-al-qaeda-to-the-islamic-state","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}