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- Adams, Lorraine
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(2004)An intimate portrait of a group of young Arab Muslims living in the United States, and the story of one man's journey into — and out of — violence.
- Afrika, Tatamkhulu
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(2006)In South Africa, the struggle against Apartheid leads a young man to contemplate the killing of innocents.
- Antaki, Myriam
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(2002)A Palestinian terrorist learns his father was a member of the Zionist terrorist group Irgun in the 1940s.
- Aswani, Ala
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(2004)Each sharply etched character embodies a facet of modern Egypt — where political corruption, ill-gotten wealth and religious hypocrisy are natural allies, where the arrogance and defensiveness of the powerful find expression in the exploitation of the weak, where youthful idealism can turn quickly to extremism, and where an older, less violent vision of society may yet prevail.
- Benaissa, Slimane
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(2004)A young man from a moderate Arab-American family is enticed into a Muslim fundamentalist group through his boss and a Palestinian coworker, and winds up conspiring to plot a terrorist attack.
- Berberian, Viken
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(2002)An exploration of the fascinating psyche of an unproven terrorist somewhere in the Middle East who has been entrusted with a mission that will reverberate around the world — to deliver a bomb to a hotel in Beirut, where its detonation will destroy hundreds of innocent lives.
- Berenson, Alex
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(2006)The only American agent ever to crack al Qaeda has been undercover so long that the CIA is no longer sure he's loyal — or even alive. He's both, but years in the Middle East have led him to question the American agenda.
- Dickey, Christopher
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(1998)A fast-paced, shocking novel which portrays the profound alienation and despair that feed a terrorist's mind and corrupt his soul. Amidst the horrors of war-torn Bosnia, a young G.I. thinks that he has finally discovered a meaningful cause and embarks on his destiny as a holy warrior.
- Hak, Pavel
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(2005)A sniper hides, picking off innocents in a besieged city. His apocalyptic, hallucinatory voice provides the novel with its main themes, the insanity of war and the terrifying exhilaration it excites in its perpetrators.
- Julavits, Heidi
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(2003)Alice and Edith are sisters, soul mates, and archenemies. Both are expert manipulators--a power that is tested and exploited when their plane is hijacked. A comic, heartbreaking novel for this new and uncertain age.
- Khadra, Yasmina
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(2005)Dr. Amin Jaafari, an Arab-Israeli citizen, discovers his wife may have been the suicide bomber after she dies in a terrorist attack.
- Rushdie, Salman
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(2005)In this gripping international tale of love and revenge, and the ancient and modern conflicts from which they spring, a murder looks at first like a political assassination, but turns out to be passionately personal.