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title: "I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad"
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# I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad

**Brand:** souad mekhennet
**Price:** € 35.90
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- **What is this?** I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad by souad mekhennet
- **How much does it cost?** € 35.90 with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

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    Guaranteed to make you think differently about the world.
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2017*

Simply a must read. Souad Mekhennet's tenacity, skill, upbringing, and cultural deftness combine to allow her to tell a more nuanced story of how terrorism has evolved since 9/11 than about anything else out there. But even more importantly, she does so by freshly illuminating her own path as a journalist and evolving identity as a Muslim in the West with openness, kindness, humor, and candor that makes her story so compelling. A genuinely human and evocative portrayal of problems some want to keep so foreign, but in fact can only be solved when we get close and understand. Guaranteed to make you think differently about the world.

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    Page turner, truth revealing!
  

*by R***A on Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2017*

I couldn't put this book down. The author grabs you with a fascinating narrative of very personal interactions with some of the most wanted men in the war on terror.  Her very unique perspective as a Western Muslim woman with unprecedented access to Jihadist -from Taliban to Al-Qaeda and ISIS, who manages to keep an uncommon balanced view, and gives the reader serious insight into the depths of the most dangerous and sought after terrorist cells. The book will bring you down to the human elements that have been lost over so many years of terror, and more than once will make you wonder why? Who is to blame? And it will shed light into the question of how we got here today. It will make you reflect on the consequences of the Iraq war and its aftermath, and what it have done to the balance of power in the Middle East, and how it contributed to fuel extremism and hatred against the West, creating a world where nobody wins.  A must read.

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    A page-turner; a must-read for policy wonks, government officials, journalism students, young adults and everyone else.
  

*by S***Y on Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2017*

This engrossing memoir reads like a thriller. I just kept turning the pages and devouring it, and finally, I didn't start a new chapter until I had time to finish it, because I found myself putting off urgent tasks. I finally finished it on a long international flight. It is the fascinating journey of a young journalist who covers Islamic terrorists and tries to decode why they are targeting Europe and coalescing into the brutally repressive caliphate of ISIS. It begins with her genesis as the daughter of immigrants from Turkey and Morocco, and how she came of age facing some of the rejection and racism that would be cited by her subjects among the reasons why they became terrorists. As she jumps on planes and travels around the world, you will gain many insights into the events behind the headlines of terrorist attacks in Belgium, Paris, and other places. She recounts her conversations with members of terror cells, argues with them about their justifications for killing innocent people, and at times puts up with their proposals that she become their second or third wife, or in one memorable scene, listens to them propose beheading her American journalist colleague. In the end the violence hits close to home. The story is told in a simple, conversational style that doesn't get in the way of the amazing reporting adventures she is recounting. This should be read by foreign policy wonks, by adolescents and young adults, by specialists in terrorism, and by government officials who are involved in coping with the huge wave of immigrants from the Middle East, Africa and Asia. There is so much to learn from this book. It should be required reading at all journalism schools, so students can learn from her methodology and her decision-making in reporting on fast-moving events.

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