suicide bombings

"Examines this violent extremism, armed conflict, and unrest, studies the reasons why it has flared up, and looks at how people have tried to resolve these situations"-- Provided by publisher.

Former NYC homicide detective Mordecai Dzikansky spent twenty-five years patrolling Brooklyn streets. As an undercover cop he helped catch a band of Torah thieves and investigated the shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur. After 9/11, the NYPD sent him to Israel to monitor suicide bombings to help protect New York from further terror. His visits to bombing sites in Israel and elsewhere made him a world authority on such bombings. As a result of his investigations, he became a victim of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). After his recovery and retirement he moved to Israel to live and now lectures and consults on terrorism.

As a young boy, Awais Reza's family moved from Indian Kashmir to Lahore in Pakistan after Partition. Now middle-aged, Awais is a shopkeeper in the Anarkali Bazaar. Married, with three sons, he looks back on his journey from idealistic young nationalist to increasingly watchful and anxious member of the mercantile class at the heart of Pakistani life. Awais's eldest son has drifted, but returned to help his father run the shop; the middle one is involved in radical Islamist politics; and the youngest is a law student who believes that a secular future is Pakistan's last and only hope. Their lives unfold against an increasingly turbulent and violent background as suicide bombers enter the life of urban Lahore with devastating consequences. Haroon K. Ullah's portrait of a middle class family oppressed by a state falling apart around them shows that Radical Islam is confronted not only in distant mountain passes by the armed forces, but most personally and tellingly across the kitchen table as families like the Rezas debate their future.

Takes a firsthand look at the culture of hate that permeates the West Bank, focusing on the lives of three Palestinian children growing up on the streets of Gaza. Directed by Peabody Award winner James Miller, who was killed by an Israeli soldier during the filming.

Maya Laor leaves her home in Israel to study astronomy at the University of Virginia after the tragic death of her boyfriend in a suicide bombing.

Examines the lives of women suicide bombers focusing on the female resistance movement and their self-destructive exploits.

Explores suicide bombers, discussing their growing threat, what motivates them, how they are justified, and the costs and prevention of suicide terror.

Traces the history of suicide bombing and profiles female suicide bombers, discussing what causes them to leave their families and sacrifice their lives in the name of their cause and describing the scope and training methods of the groups that use women as suicide bombers.

Maya Laor leaves her home in Israel to study astronomy at the University of Virginia after the tragic death of her boyfriend in a suicide bombing.