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A daring reporter’s quest through the “living history” of Islam amid the War on Terrorism.  In 1991, a British university student spent his summer break fighting alongside Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq. Now a prize-winning reporter and author of a book on al Qaeda, Jason Burke travels... read more

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Just behind my apartment in Islamabad was a plot of land covered in mimosa trees, wild cannabis and scrubby, prickly bushes.

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  1. Jason Burke (Author)
 

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