In this compelling and evocative memoir, we accompany Mekhennet as she journeys behind the lines of jihad, starting in the German neighborhoods where the 9/11 plotters were radicalized and the Iraqi neighborhoods where Sunnis and Shia turned against one another, and culminating on the Turkish/Syrian border region where ISIS is a daily presence. She has also sought to provide a mediating voice between these cultures, which too often misunderstand each other. I was not to carry any identification, and would have to leave my cell phone, audio recorder, watch, and purse at my hotel.”įor her whole life, Souad Mekhennet, a reporter for The Washington Post who was born and educated in Germany, has had to balance the two sides of her upbringing – Muslim and Western.
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