I Was Told To Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad

Souad Mekhennet, a reporter for the Washington Post, was born and educated in Germany. She has balanced her Muslim and Western upbringing and sought to provide a mediating voice between these cultures. In this memoir, she journeys behind the lines of jihad, documenting her run-ins with intelligence services and why the Arab Spring never lived up to its promise. She has unique access to some of the world's most wanted men and is not afraid to face personal danger to reach out to individuals in the inner circles of Al Qaeda, the Taliban, ISIS, and their affiliates.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 432 pages
\n Publication date: 05 July 2018
\n Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Souad Mekhennet, a reporter for the Washington Post, has had to balance her Muslim and Western upbringing throughout her life. She has sought to provide a mediating voice between these cultures, which often misunderstand each other. In this compelling and evocative memoir, we accompany Mekhennet as she journeys behind the lines of jihad, starting in the German neighborhoods where the 9/11 plotters were radicalized and the Iraqi neighborhoods where Sunnis and Shia turned against one another. We then culminate on the Turkish/Syrian border region, where ISIS is a daily presence.

Mekhennet's travels across the Middle East and North Africa document her chilling run-ins with various intelligence services and show why the Arab Spring never lived up to its promise. She then returns to Europe, first in London, where she uncovers the identity of the notorious ISIS executioner, Jihadi John, and then in France, Belgium, and her native Germany, where terror has come to the heart of Western civilization.

Mekhennet's background has given her unique access to some of the world's most wanted men, who generally refuse to speak to Western journalists. She is not afraid to face personal danger to reach out to individuals in the inner circles of Al Qaeda, the Taliban, ISIS, and their affiliates; when she is told to come alone to an interview, she never knows what awaits at her destination.

Souad Mekhennet is an ideal guide to introduce us to the human beings behind the ominous headlines, as she shares her transformative journey with us. Hers is a story you will not soon forget.

\n Weight: 340g\n
Dimension: 198 x 135 x 27 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780349008370\n \n