On the Road to Kandahar: Travels Through Conflict in the Islamic World
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (542 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312366221 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Perceptive and nuanced analysis Jacob Børresen Jason Burkes "On the Road to Kandahar" is a an intensely personal story of a professional reporters ten years of travelling and reporting from conflict in the Islamic world. Its perceptive and nuanced analysis and genuinely emphatic approach to the "war on terror" is refreshingly free from all of that gung ho propaganda and deliberately one sided commentary that taints so many of the books on this subject. It is also an extremely well written and easily accessible text, well suited a. "Good Insight in to the Islamic World" according to I Ahmad. I was impressed with a pace that Jason Burke established in reporting his decade or more of travel through Southwest Asia (Pakistan/Afghanistan) and Middle East. His optimism and hope stays alive throughout his various first hand encounters with horrific events. His book provides a very different viewpoint compared to the ones that I was able to follow through the USA based newspapers and magazines reports for the two post 9/11 wars (USA/Aghan War or USA/Iraq War II). He does not pre. Munawar Ali said Burke's Travelogue. I read Jason Burke's Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror, and found it the most factual book on the events surrounding 9/11. So, I had high expectations and was hopeful for further updates from his previous "Burke's Travelogue" according to Munawar Ali. I read Jason Burke's Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror, and found it the most factual book on the events surrounding 9/11. So, I had high expectations and was hopeful for further updates from his previous 200Burke's Travelogue Munawar Ali I read Jason Burke's Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror, and found it the most factual book on the events surrounding 9/11. So, I had high expectations and was hopeful for further updates from his previous 2004 publication. As other reviewers have noted, this book is a travelogue and personal memoir of Mr.Burke's travels around the world, rather then an analysis of the Middle East.Admittedly, I'm impressed with what has kept Mr.Burke busy the last 2 decades. But, there was nothing . publication. As other reviewers have noted, this book is a travelogue and personal memoir of Mr.Burke's travels around the world, rather then an analysis of the Middle East.Admittedly, I'm impressed with what has kept Mr.Burke busy the last 2 decades. But, there was nothing . 00Burke's Travelogue Munawar Ali I read Jason Burke's Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror, and found it the most factual book on the events surrounding 9/11. So, I had high expectations and was hopeful for further updates from his previous 2004 publication. As other reviewers have noted, this book is a travelogue and personal memoir of Mr.Burke's travels around the world, rather then an analysis of the Middle East.Admittedly, I'm impressed with what has kept Mr.Burke busy the last 2 decades. But, there was nothing . publication. As other reviewers have noted, this book is a travelogue and personal memoir of Mr.Burke's travels around the world, rather then an analysis of the Middle East.Admittedly, I'm impressed with what has kept Mr.Burke busy the last "Burke's Travelogue" according to Munawar Ali. I read Jason Burke's Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror, and found it the most factual book on the events surrounding 9/11. So, I had high expectations and was hopeful for further updates from his previous 200Burke's Travelogue Munawar Ali I read Jason Burke's Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror, and found it the most factual book on the events surrounding 9/11. So, I had high expectations and was hopeful for further updates from his previous 2004 publication. As other reviewers have noted, this book is a travelogue and personal memoir of Mr.Burke's travels around the world, rather then an analysis of the Middle East.Admittedly, I'm impressed with what has kept Mr.Burke busy the last 2 decades. But, there was nothing . publication. As other reviewers have noted, this book is a travelogue and personal memoir of Mr.Burke's travels around the world, rather then an analysis of the Middle East.Admittedly, I'm impressed with what has kept Mr.Burke busy the last 2 decades. But, there was nothing . decades. But, there was nothing
Now a prize-winning reporter and author of a book on al Qaeda, Jason Burke travels from the Sahara to the Himalayas and meets with refugees, mujahideen, and government ministers in a probing search to understand Islam, and Islamic radicalism, in the context of the "War on Terrorism." Praised by London's Daily Mail as "intensely personal and accessible," this is the gripping story of a search for answers to some of the most urgent questions of our time: What drives Islamic fundamentalism, and how should the West respond? Are we so fundamentally different that we can't coexist? Although much of his book concerns war and violence, Burke reaches the optimistic conclusion that extremist violence alienates its populations and so is doomed fail and wither away.. A daring reporter's quest through the "living history"
His conclusion is hopeful, if tinged with warning: "Despite the best efforts of men like bin Laden and al-Zawahiri and al-Zarqawi, despite the incompetent, corrupt, sclerotic dynastic rulers still clinging to power everywhere the ordinary people of the Islamic world whose voices were so often drowned out by shouting and gunfire had not been won over by the radicals." Nonetheless, as Burke argues, the war in Iraq has clearly not helped matters. From Publishers Weekly A veteran foreign correspondent, Burke takes his readers on a whistle-stop tour of modern Islamic radicalism in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Palestine, Algeria, Thailand and places in between. (May)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Though Burke doesn't always have the strongest grasp on the intricacies of local politics and theologies—and freely admits it, unlike many commentators—his conversations with all kinds of ordinary people