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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2021
Language
English
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A definitive account of the rescue mission to free hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls after their kidnapping by Boko Haram describes how a global social media campaign initiated with the Twitter hashtag #BringBackOurGirls prompted a dramatic worldwide intervention.
Spring, 2014 millions of Twitter users unwittingly helped turn a group of 276 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram, a little-known Islamist sect, into a central prize in the global War on...
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Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Freelance journalist Fergusson has been reporting on Afghanistan for nearly a decade and a half, beginning with his coverage of the Taliban's takeover of Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan in 1997. In this work, he offers a portrait of the history and current status of the Taliban in which he hopes to counter Western images of the group as mere "bearded bigots" and to impress upon the reader that the only way out of the mess that is the war in...
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English
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Kadija is the music-loving daughter of a guardian of the library in the ancient city of Timbuktu, Ali is a former shepherd boy, trained by Islamist militants--and both are caught up in the war in Mali and on opposite sides of the stuggle to save the sacred Sufi manuscripts that the militants want to destroy.
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English
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"Forced to become a child soldier, sixteen-year-old Somali refugee Abdi, must confront his painful past"--
When Abdi's family is kidnapped by a ruthless CIA agent, he's forced to become a child soldier with the ruthless jihadi group Al Shabaab-- embedded as a spy within the militia's ranks and to send dispatches on their plans to the Americans. Training and witnessing atrocity after atrocity, Abdi soon wonders if he's even pretending anymore. Forced...
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