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On the Road to Kandahar

Travels through conflict in the Islamic world

A brilliant, fearless journalist who knows huge areas of the Islamic world intimately, Burke now turns to the wider question of how we are to get to grips with radical Islam and what it really means. Burke has travelled all over the great arc of Islamic land, from the Middle East to Southeast Asia, and he uses this in his new book to great effect to show how various and completely unmonolithic Islam really is and how the sort of standard Western generalizations about it are both stupid and dangerous.

About Jason Burke

JASON BURKE, the International Security correspondent for the Guardian, has been a foreign correspondent for almost 30 years, reporting from the Middle East, South Asia, Europe and Africa.

He is one of the foremost writers on terrorism and the author of four critically acclaimed books: The New Threat from Islamic Militancy, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize; The 9/11 Wars, ‘the best overview of the 9/11 decade in print’ (The Economist); the ground-breaking Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam and On the Road to Kandahar: Travels through Conflict in the Islamic World.

He lives near London.
Details
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9780141024356
  • Length: 320 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
  • Weight: 236g
  • Price: £15.99
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