If Oceans Were Ink
- 336bladzijden
- 12 uur lezen
Tells the story of how author and her long-time friend Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi found a way to confront ugly stereotypes and persistent misperceptions that were cleaving their communities.
Carla Power Boeken
Carla Power is een auteur wier werk zich verdiept in het ingewikkelde weefsel van menselijke ervaringen en culturele ontmoetingen. Haar achtergrond als buitenlandcorrespondent verleent een scherpe, inzichtelijke kijk aan haar verkenning van mondiale thema's. Power combineert meesterlijk analytische scherpte met diepgaande empathie en biedt lezers unieke inzichten in de complexiteit van de wereld. Haar schrijven onderscheidt zich door het vermogen om persoonlijke verhalen te verbinden met bredere sociale en politieke contexten.
Home, Land, Security
- 352bladzijden
- 13 uur lezen
"Nicola, Christianne, and Marie are mothers who discovered too late that their sons had been radicalized online and had flown from the West to join the tens of thousands of foreign ISIS fighters in Syria. Too often extremists are portrayed as having sprung from the earth as irredeemable killing machines, but these women underscore the deeper truth that no one is born a terrorist, and they have themselves become activists in preventing violent radicalism. Grasping at the Root explores innovative new counter-extremism programs around the world, including in the United States, Europe, Pakistan, and Indonesia. We meet an American judge who has staked his career on finding new ways to handle terror suspects, a Pakistani woman running a game-changing school for former child soldiers, a radicalized Somali American who learns through literature to see beyond his hate-filled beliefs, and a former neo-Nazi who now helps disarm jihadis"-- Provided by publisher