Is This Your First War? Travels Through the Post-9 11 Islamic World

Name: Is This Your First War? Travels Through the Post-9 11 Islamic World
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ISBN: 9781459706460

ISBN-10: 1459706463

ISBN-13: 9781459706460

Edition: 2012

Authors: Michael Petrou

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Less than a year before 9/11, Michael Petrou trekked through al Qaeda's backyard in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan. He was back in Central Asia within weeks of the attacks -- this time as a reporter, slipping into Afghanistan as rockets and tracer bullets lit up the night sky, carrying notebooks, stolen blankets, and a satellite phone. In the decade that followed, Petrou has repeatedly returned to the greater Middle East, where political Islam, liberalism, ethnic and religious nationalism, and Western military intervention shape and batter the lives of those who live there. In the process, Petrou has established himself as one of Canada's premier foreign correspondents. Petrou details a world…

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List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Publication date: 9/29/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Terry Golway is an editor and writer at The New York Observer and author of Irish Rebel: John Devoy and America's Fight for Ireland.



Prologue



Before the Storm



It Went to Dust



Back on the Silk Road



War



Double Lives



Resistance



Genocide



Holy Lands



Return to Afghanistan


Postscript


Acknowledgements