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Two sisters : a father, his daughters, and their journey into the Syrian jihad / Åsne Seierstad ; translated from the Norwegian by Seán Kinsella.
Van Pelt Library HV6433.N8 S45165 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seierstad, Åsne, 1970- author.
- Standardized Title:
- To søstre. English
- Language:
- English
- Norwegian
- Subjects (All):
- IS (Organization)--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.
- IS (Organization).
- Radicalization--Norway--Case studies.
- Radicalization.
- Radicalism--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Radicalism.
- Terrorists--Recruiting--Norway.
- Terrorists.
- Muslim girls--Religious life--Norway.
- Muslim girls.
- Women terrorists--Norway.
- Women terrorists.
- Children of immigrants--Norway--Social conditions--21st century.
- Children of immigrants.
- Somalis--Norway--Ethnic identity.
- Somalis.
- Muslims--Ethnic identity.
- Terrorists--Recruiting.
- Ethnicity.
- Social conditions.
- Religious life.
- Norway.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction.
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 418 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
- Summary:
- The riveting story of two sisters' journey to the Islamic State and the father who tries to bring them home. Åsne Seierstad puts the problem of radicalization into painfully human terms, using instant messages and other primary sources to reconstruct a family's crisis from the inside. Eventually, she takes us into the hellscape of the Syrian civil war, as Sadiq risks his life in pursuit of his daughters, refusing to let them disappear into the maelstrom. This is a relentless thriller and a feat of reporting with profound lessons about belief, extremism, and the meaning of devotion.
- Contents:
- Part I
- The rupture
- Veiled
- Blindman's bluff
- In
- Part II
- Early teens
- The mission
- Eating with the devil
- Norway, thine is our devotion
- This outfit
- It's all about the heart
- Valentine's Ummah
- Target practice
- Halal dating
- Paragraphs
- Strange bird
- Separation
- Fraud in the name of God
- The October Revolution
- Part III
- Danse macabre
- Blueprint
- Home
- A kind, wonderful man
- Spoils of war
- The end of Sykes-Picot
- God is not great
- Part IV
- Not without my daughters
- New year, new opportunities
- Housewives of Raqqa
- Boys from Norway
- Shoot the girls if you want!
- Ramadan
- Part V
- A different life
- Voices in the mind
- Legacy
- The basis of the book.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Norwegian.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-418).
- ISBN:
- 9780374279677
- 0374279675
- OCLC:
- 1012673800
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