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Children of Jihad

A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East

Author Jared Cohen
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$17.00 US
Penguin Adult HC/TR | Avery
On sale Aug 26, 2008 | 304 Pages | 9781592403998
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Defying foreign government orders and interviewing terrorists face to face, a young American tours hostile lands to learn about Middle Eastern youth, and uncovers a subculture that defies every stereotype.

In 2004, Jared Cohen embarked on the first of a series of incredible journeys to the Middle East in an effort to understand the spread of radical Islamist violence among Muslim youth. The result is Children of Jihad, a portrait of paradox that probes much deeper than any journalist or pundit ever could.

Chosen as one of Kirkus Review's Best Books of 2007, Cohen's account begins in Lebanon, where he interviews Hezbollah members at, of all places, a McDonald's. In Iran, he defies government threats and sneaks into underground parties, where bootleg liquor, Western music, and the Internet are all easy to access. His risky itinerary also takes him to a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, borderlands in Syria, the insurgency hotbed of Mosul, and other front-line locales. At each turn, he observes a culture at an uncanny crossroads. Gripping and daring, Children of Jihad shows us the future through the eyes of those who are shaping it.
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Jared Cohen is the founder and director of Google Ideas. He is a Rhodes Scholar and the author of two books, Children of Jihad and One Hundred Days of Silence, and has written for The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Policy Review, SAIS Review, Hoover Digest, The Washington Post and The International Herald Tribune. From 2006 to 2010 he served as a member of the secretary of state’s Policy Planning Staff and as a close advisor to both Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton, and is now an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2013, TIME Magazine named him to its list of the “100 Most Influential People in the World.” He is also a member of the National Counterterrorism Center’s Director’s Advisory Board. He lives in New York City with his wife. View titles by Jared Cohen

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Defying foreign government orders and interviewing terrorists face to face, a young American tours hostile lands to learn about Middle Eastern youth, and uncovers a subculture that defies every stereotype.

In 2004, Jared Cohen embarked on the first of a series of incredible journeys to the Middle East in an effort to understand the spread of radical Islamist violence among Muslim youth. The result is Children of Jihad, a portrait of paradox that probes much deeper than any journalist or pundit ever could.

Chosen as one of Kirkus Review's Best Books of 2007, Cohen's account begins in Lebanon, where he interviews Hezbollah members at, of all places, a McDonald's. In Iran, he defies government threats and sneaks into underground parties, where bootleg liquor, Western music, and the Internet are all easy to access. His risky itinerary also takes him to a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, borderlands in Syria, the insurgency hotbed of Mosul, and other front-line locales. At each turn, he observes a culture at an uncanny crossroads. Gripping and daring, Children of Jihad shows us the future through the eyes of those who are shaping it.

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Jared Cohen is the founder and director of Google Ideas. He is a Rhodes Scholar and the author of two books, Children of Jihad and One Hundred Days of Silence, and has written for The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Policy Review, SAIS Review, Hoover Digest, The Washington Post and The International Herald Tribune. From 2006 to 2010 he served as a member of the secretary of state’s Policy Planning Staff and as a close advisor to both Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton, and is now an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2013, TIME Magazine named him to its list of the “100 Most Influential People in the World.” He is also a member of the National Counterterrorism Center’s Director’s Advisory Board. He lives in New York City with his wife. View titles by Jared Cohen

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