If Oceans Were Ink
- 336 Seiten
- 12 Lesestunden
Tells the story of how author and her long-time friend Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi found a way to confront ugly stereotypes and persistent misperceptions that were cleaving their communities.
Carla Power Bücher
Carla Power ist eine Autorin, deren Werk sich mit dem komplexen Geflecht menschlicher Erfahrungen und kultureller Begegnungen befasst. Ihr Hintergrund als Auslandskorrespondentin verleiht ihrer Auseinandersetzung mit globalen Themen eine scharfe, aufschlussreiche Perspektive. Power verbindet meisterhaft analytische Strenge mit tiefem Einfühlungsvermögen und bietet den Lesern einzigartige Einblicke in die Komplexität der Welt. Ihr Schreiben zeichnet sich durch die Fähigkeit aus, persönliche Erzählungen mit breiteren sozialen und politischen Zusammenhängen zu verknüpfen.
Home, Land, Security
- 352 Seiten
- 13 Lesestunden
"Nicola, Christianne, and Marie are mothers who discovered too late that their sons had been radicalized online and had flown from the West to join the tens of thousands of foreign ISIS fighters in Syria. Too often extremists are portrayed as having sprung from the earth as irredeemable killing machines, but these women underscore the deeper truth that no one is born a terrorist, and they have themselves become activists in preventing violent radicalism. Grasping at the Root explores innovative new counter-extremism programs around the world, including in the United States, Europe, Pakistan, and Indonesia. We meet an American judge who has staked his career on finding new ways to handle terror suspects, a Pakistani woman running a game-changing school for former child soldiers, a radicalized Somali American who learns through literature to see beyond his hate-filled beliefs, and a former neo-Nazi who now helps disarm jihadis"-- Provided by publisher