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Takes you "behind the scenes to ISIS's cities, training camps, and prisons. You will explore the battles that have defined the rise of this terrorist army, and see the recruitment process that keeps it thriving, and uncover the money that funds its survival. By reading this book, you will be able to understand the challenges America faces-- and how this dangerous group could irreparably damage the world"--Back cover.

Exiled to the United States after her father, a Middle Eastern dictator, is killed in a coup, fifteen-year-old Laila must cope with a completely new way of life, the truth of her father's regime, and her mother and brother's ways of adjusting.

Daily news coverage of chronic unrest in the Middle East, students remain confused about this tangled and politically charged situation. UXL's Middle East Conflict Reference Library is designed to meet the pressing need for a lucid, comprehensive and objective overview of the people, events and documents that are key to understanding the region.

Daily news coverage of chronic unrest in the Middle East, students remain confused about this tangled and politically charged situation. UXL's Middle East Conflict Reference Library is designed to meet the pressing need for a lucid, comprehensive and objective overview of the people, events and documents that are key to understanding the region.

Daily news coverage of chronic unrest in the Middle East, students remain confused about this tangled and politically charged situation. UXL's Middle East Conflict Reference Library is designed to meet the pressing need for a lucid, comprehensive and objective overview of the people, events and documents that are key to understanding the region.

"Terrorism expert Erick Stakelbeck pulls back the curtain on ISIS, the violent terrorist organization spreading death and hate in the Middle East. The rise of ISIS took the White House by complete surprise: President Obama called the group "JV," then was forced to reassess when ISIS began executing innocent American journalists. Now radicalized Americans and Europeans are joining ISIS' ranks. So who is ISIS? How powerful are they, and are they a threat to the homeland? Stakelbeck, a veteran national security reporter and a leading authority on the Middle East, has produced the definitive guide to America's most recent and most frightening enemy. "--.

Chronicles the origins and rise of terrorist groups ISIS and Hamas; examines their capabilities, resources and objectives; and explains how, if left unchecked, they could carry out a genocide of unprecedented proportions.

Profiles twenty Middle Eastern countries, presenting statistics and discussing their peoples, histories, economies, and foreign relations; and includes twelve articles on the region from newspapers and magazines around the world.

In the Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia a caravan of American and British counter-terrorism experts search for a deadly group of Al Qaeda terrorists threatening the world's future.

Examines Islam's place in the Middle East, focusing on how the country's medieval and modern history has led to the interweaving of the sacred and secular in its political and intellectual life.