The Terror Years
From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
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- اطلاعات
- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی
June 27, 2016
Suffering, violence, and tense intrigue run through these dispatches from the frontlines of the “war on terror,” culled from the author’s New Yorker articles. Pulitzer-winning journalist Wright (Thirteen Days in September) investigates every facet of the shadowy conflict, including Washington officialdom, terrorist cells, and the lives and deaths of the war’s victims, from Syria to lower Manhattan. The pieces include profiles of al-Qaeda mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri as his militancy is forged under torture in Egyptian prisons; FBI counterterrorism agent Ali Soufan, who used sympathy and cagey questioning rather than waterboarding to get information; and Egyptian Islamist Dr. Fadl (as he’s commonly known), a leading theorist of jihad who renounced violence in 2008. Quieter but equally searching pieces explore the plight of Syrian filmmakers walking a tightrope between expression and government co-optation; the author’s experience training journalists in Saudi Arabia, where they are stifled by theocratic dictatorship; and the heartbreak of families of five American hostages held by ISIS. Wright mixes engrossing procedural writing on organizing and fighting terrorism with vivid firsthand reportage. (Surveying veiled Saudi women, he writes, “It felt to me that all the women had died, and only their shades remained.”) He writes with empathy for every side while clearly registering the moral catastrophes that darken this pitiless struggle. Agent: Andew Wylie, Wylie Agency.
March 15, 2016
What's happened in the Middle East since the emergence of al-Qaeda in the 1990s? Reprinting ten of his pieces first published in The New Yorker, staff writer Wright offers a fierce and informative trajectory of recent developments. The pieces range widely from religious rigidity in Saudi Arabia to Syrian films, which have reflected the barely suppressed anger that led to civil war. Two of Wright's last three books--Going Clear and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower--were New York Times best sellers, and all three, including Thirteen Days in September, received front-page coverage in the New York Times Book Review. So great expectations are justified. With a 60,000-copy first printing.
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