Life Is More Beautiful Than Paradise: A Jihadist's Own Story - Couverture souple

Al-Berry, Khaled

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9774168062 ISBN 13 : 9789774168062

Editeur : The American University in Cairo Press, 2016

Synopsis

In 1986, when this autobiography opens, the author is a typical fourteen-year-old boy in Asyut in Upper Egypt. Attracted at first by the image of a radical Islamist group as "strong Muslims," his involvement develops until he finds himself deeply committed to its beliefs and implicated in its activities. This ends when, as he leaves the university following a demonstration, he is arrested. Prison, a return to life on the outside, and attending Cairo University all lead to Khaled al-Berry's eventual alienation from radical Islam. This book opens a window onto the mind of an extremist who turns out to be disarmingly like many other clever adolescents, and bears witness to a history with whose reverberations we continue to live. It also serves as an intelligent and critical guide for the reader to the movement's unfamiliar debates and preoccupations, motives and intentions. Fluently written, intellectually gripping, exciting, and often funny, Life Is More Beautiful than Paradise provides a vital key to the understanding of a world that is both a source of fear and a magnet of curiosity for the west.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Khaled al-Berry was born in Sohag, Egypt in 1972. He has a degree in medicine from Cairo University, and currently works as a journalist and writer in London, where he has been living since 1999. Humphrey Davies is the translator of a number of Arabic novels, including The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany (AUC Press, 2004). He has twice been awarded the Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The American University in Cairo Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9774168062
• ISBN 13: 9789774168062
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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