In the Skin of a Jihadist: A Young Journalist Enters the by Anna Erelle, Erin Potter

By Anna Erelle, Erin Potter

The riveting own tale of a tender French journalist who is going undercover and will get dangerously with reference to a key member of ISIS

On fb, "Mélodie"—a twenty-year-old convert to Islam dwelling together with her mom and sister in Toulouse—meets Bilel, a French-born, high-ranking militant for the Islamic nation in Syria. inside of days, Bilel falls in love with Mélodie, and Skypes her many times, urging her to return to Syria, marry him, and do jihad.

But "Mélodie" is really Anna Erelle, a Paris-based journalist investigating the recruitment channels of the Islamic country, whose electronic propaganda constitutes one among its so much ambitious and scary guns, effectively mobilizing expanding numbers of younger Europeans. during this enthralling actual tale, Erelle chronicles her extreme monthlong courting with Bilel—who seems to be none except the right-hand guy of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph of ISIS. Impatient for Mélodie to affix him, Bilel tells her that, in keeping with an imam he has consulted, they're already all yet married, and should be formally while she arrives in Syria. As she embarks at the ultimate, such a lot perilous level of her research, Mélodie leaves for Amsterdam to start her trip to the center East. yet issues pass extraordinarily wrong.

A gripping and infrequently harrowing inquiry into the criteria that encourage kids to affix extremist reasons, within the dermis of a Jihadist is a page-turner that is helping us larger comprehend the charm of extremism.

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The riveting own tale of a tender French journalist who is going undercover and will get dangerously just about a key member of ISIS

On fb, "Mélodie"—a twenty-year-old convert to Islam residing together with her mom and sister in Toulouse—meets Bilel, a French-born, high-ranking militant for the Islamic kingdom in Syria. inside of days, Bilel falls in love with Mélodie, and Skypes her many times, urging her to come back to Syria, marry him, and do jihad.

But "Mélodie" is absolutely Anna Erelle, a Paris-based journalist investigating the recruitment channels of the Islamic kingdom, whose electronic propaganda constitutes one in every of its so much bold and scary guns, effectively mobilizing expanding numbers of younger Europeans. during this enchanting precise tale, Erelle chronicles her excessive monthlong dating with Bilel—who seems to be none except the right-hand guy of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph of ISIS. Impatient for Mélodie to affix him, Bilel tells her that, in keeping with an imam he has consulted, they're already all yet married, and may be formally whilst she arrives in Syria. As she embarks at the ultimate, so much perilous level of her research, Mélodie leaves for Amsterdam to start her trip to the center East. yet issues cross extraordinarily wrong.

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