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Nicolas Hénin Martin Makinson

Jihad Academy

The Rise of Islamic State

Nicolas Hénin,  Martin Makinson

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English
Bloomsbury Publishing
21 October 2015
History; Islamic studies; Religious & theocratic ideologies
Framed by Hénin’s personal experience as a hostage of ISIS alongside James Foley, Jihad Academy debunks the myths surrounding Islamic extremism and provides a clear and revealing insight into the sect’s strange and distorted world. By invading Iraq in 2003 and not intervening in Syria since 2011, the West helped fuel radicalisation and continues to fuel it, by making diplomatic compromises with dictators, by refusing to heed the suffering of populations, and by failing to offer a convincing counter-narrative or a political alternative.

Hénin shows how Western societies share the responsibility for the creation of the new jihadists, explains how they are moulded and how the West has played Islamic State’s game and spread its propaganda, allowing it to enlist more and more recruits ready to fight for a distorted vision of Islam. In the final chapters he advances possible strategies for repairing what can still be repaired.
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Imprint:   Bloomsbury Publishing
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 135mm, 
Weight:   349g
ISBN:   9789385436031
ISBN 10:   9385436031
Pages:   150
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Nicolas Henin is a freelance journalist who has worked in Iraq and Syria for most of his career. From the fall of Baghdad to the capture of Raqqa, he has witnessed - often at close quarters with the jihadists - the events that led to the emergence of Islamic State. In June 2013 he was taken hostage along with three other journalists by ISIS - among his captors was Jihadi John. He was held in an underground cell with among others, James Foley. He was released after negotiations between his captors and the French government with his fellow journalists in April 2014. He lives in France. Martin Makinson is a French-Australian national who has lived and worked all over the Middle East as an archaeologist and teacher. He currently divides his time between France and the Middle East.

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