56 Results for : islamists
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Putin's Gambit: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 696min
From TV broadcaster Lou Dobbs and award-winning author James O. Born comes Putin's Gambit, an international financial thriller about a KGB plot to use a series of terrorist attacks as cover for a Russian military incursion into Estonia. Adjusting to civilian life has not been easy for former Marine Derek Walsh. As he navigates a brutal job on Wall Street and a challenging romance, he wonders if he could be doing more with his life. When an inexplicable $200 million money transfer is made on his computer, he is thrust into the world of international terror, and the global economy is knocked off its hinges. On the other side of the Atlantic, a dangerous alliance has formed. Radical Islamists and Russian extremists have set the wheels in motion for Russia to assert its power in Europe. The US president has proven to be weak on foreign policy, the military is stretched too thin, and Vladimir Putin judges this to be the time for Russia to regain its Soviet Empire. Troops mass on the Estonian border, waiting for the order to move. The FBI believes Walsh was involved in the money transfer, and a group of Russians are intent on killing him. As New Yorkers are outraged upon learning of the illegal money transfer, and the world economy crashes after a series of terrorist attacks, Walsh and his Marine buddies are the only ones that can keep the world from spinning off its axis. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Larkin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/002570/bk_aren_002570_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Invasion America: Resistance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 536min
Troops from the Islamic nations storm ashore on the Northeast coast of a crippled America. A country torn apart by chemical weapons unearthed from the blood soaked sands of the Middle East. ISIS and al Qaeda have wiped out 80 percent of the US population, leaving the country defenseless. The cities of New York, Boston and Richmond have fallen to the Caliphate, and the fate of the free world hangs in the balance. All of America is in danger of falling to the brutal hand of Islamic extremism. Until one patriot, Ben Ford, a former Marine lieutenant, launches a vicious one-man fightback against the invaders. The loss of his family has left him with a death wish, and he turns his killing rage on the hated enemy. In the process, he finds there is still something to fight for. His country. As Ford's surviving resistance fighters battle the enemy, they discover a terrible secret. The Islamists are about to 'ethnically cleanse' their conquered territory, and so the fight for the soul of America has begun. This is a spectacular story of a terrifying scenario. An alliance of terrorists that rules the Middle East. The unearthing of WMDs that many believe are still buried beneath the burning sands. The result - Apocalypse. Invasion America: Resistance is by the best-selling author of many Spec Ops war stories. These include the popular SEAL Team Bravo titles, the Raider series, as well as the Echo Six, Raider and Devil's Guard series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Eastman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/047119/bk_acx0_047119_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Egypt - Culture Smart! (eBook, ePUB)
This revised and updated edition of Culture Smart! Egypt reveals a country in the throes of change. The largely secular revolution that started in Cairo's Tahrir Square in January 2011 became the flagship of the Arab Spring revolts. The uprising resulted in a political effervescence, with new parties, movements, and groups all jostling for space in the new political landscape. But the situation remains fluid. Free elections produced a parliament dominated by Islamists and the country's political and social identity has yet to be defined. Egypt's heady spirit of change is both rooted in and challenged by traditional and deeply conservative values. The timeless Egypt that has inspired conquerors, academics, and artists for millennia is home to 82 million people who call it Omm Eddunia, Mother of the World. It is the people who are Egypt's true wealth. They are friendly, cheerful, proud, and renowned for their sense of humor. In bringing the narrative up to date, this new edition of Culture Smart! Egypt explores the codes and paradoxes of Egyptian life. It outlines the country's history and shows the forces that have shaped its sensibility. It explains values and attitudes, and guides you through local customs and traditions. It opens a window into the private lives of Egyptians, how they behave at home, and how they interact with foreign visitors. It offers practical advice, from how to make friends to avoiding faux pas. It sets out to make your encounter as rich as possible by taking you beyond the clichés to the real people.- Shop: buecher
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Cowering in Place: A Mark Greene (Boston Strong) Misadventure , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 405min
Boston is under assault. Caught between the Islamists' bombs and the government ban of consumer goods detected in the bomb fragments, Bostonians must choose: accommodation or struggle, resignation or revolt, appeasement or rebellion. So far the good people of Boston have chosen accommodation, resignation, and appeasement. On the struggle, revolt, rebellion side is Mark Greene, who, having been left homeless and loveless from his last misadventure, meets, by chance, Sandra, a ravishing revolutionary who gives Mark a second chance at love and shelter, if he only commits himself to the underground movement. Top on its agenda: undermine the current oppressive regime. As Mark learns the ins and outs of insurrection, Sandra's father, Carniff, a mover and shaker, has fiendishly allied himself with Tereek, the Islamic mastermind, in a bid to destroy him and his ilk from within. To that end Carniff enlists the CEOs of popular consumer-goods companies, Wendy's and Harlequin Books among them, to become his unwitting accomplices. Into this maelstrom of politics, bloodshed, conspiracy, violence, and consumer goods, Mark Greene confronts the moral question that dogs all revolutionaries: Just how many eggs is one willing to break to make an omelet? The de facto leader of the insurrection, Kilt, Mark's rival for Sandra's affection, is all too willing to make quite a bloody breakfast. And as the toll of innocent lives lost rises along with a growing list of outlawed consumer items, all concerned must ask how much blood must be shed for liberty, the restoration of the republic, and pineapples? Pineapples? Join Mark Greene on his latest misadventure into revolution, romance, and the bloody absurdity of both. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John McLain. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/039829/bk_acx0_039829_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Black Ops Heroes of Afghanistan: Vengeance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 488min
Rafe Stoner, a former Navy SEAL, leads a cruel existence as a gun for hire in Afghanistan. After the brutal killing of his fiancée, he vowed a brutal revenge. A revenge that littered the landscape with the bodies of those responsible. Now he learns his work is not over. A wealthy, young Afghan woman holds the key to the identity of the Taliban commander who ordered the murder. Stoner sets out with his ally, Greg Blum, to hunt down the last of the guilty men. The quest takes them to a remote, hilltop city. They find the girl they seek, besieged by brutal Islamists attempting to seize her fortune. Stoner has to put aside the mission in order to protect her from the Mullahs and Imams who would rob and kill her. As a result, he and Blum are dragged into a bloody struggle that is a microcosm of the entire country. A nation where religion, politics, and the drug trade have spiraled out of control in a cycle of endless violence. Revenge has to take a back seat when the survival of those around him hangs by a slender thread. This is an incredible story of an impossible and bitter fight to punish the guilty. A fight to defend an innocent woman in a city where justice comes in the shape of a 7.62mm bullet. Black-Ops: Heroes of Afghanistan II is by the best-selling author of many Special Ops novels. These include the popular SEAL Team Bravo stories, the Raider series, Echo Six, and a number of Devil's Guard titles. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles Lawrence. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/045267/bk_acx0_045267_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Egyptians , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1224min
From award-winning journalist Jack Shenker, The Egyptians is the essential book about Egypt and radical politics. In early 2011 Cairo's Tahrir Square briefly commanded the attention of the world. Half a decade later, the international media has largely moved on from Egypt's explosive cycles of revolution and counter-revolution - but the Arab world's most populous nation remains as volatile as ever, its turmoil intimately bound up with forms of authoritarian power and grassroots resistance that stretch right across the globe. In The Egyptians: A Radical Story, Jack Shenker uncovers the roots of the uprising that succeeded in toppling Hosni Mubarak, one of the Middle East's most entrenched dictators, and explores a country now divided between two irreconcilable political orders. Challenging conventional analyses that depict contemporary Egypt as a battle between Islamists and secular forces, The Egyptians illuminates other far more important fault lines: the far-flung communities waging war against transnational corporations, the men and women fighting to subvert long-established gender norms, the workers dramatically seizing control of their own factories, and the cultural producers (novelists, graffiti artists and illicit bedroom DJs) appropriating public space in defiance of their repressive and increasingly violent Western-backed regime. Situating the Egyptian revolution in its proper context - not as an isolated event but as an ongoing popular struggle against a certain model of state authority and economic exclusion that is replicated in different forms around the world - The Egyptians explains why the events of the past five years have proved so threatening to elites both inside Egypt and abroad. As Egypt's rulers seek to eliminate all forms of dissent, seeded within the rebellious politics of Egypt's young generation are big ideas about democracy, sovereignty, social justice and resistance that ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Shenker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/027436/bk_adbl_027436_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The History of Hamas , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 136min
Discusses the origins of Hamas and important leaders like Sheikh Yassin, Khaled Meshaal, and others Covers the Middle East conflict from the formation of Israel to today In 1988, a recently organized militant group issued its charter, which called upon Muslims to "raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine". The group, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, declared, "Allah is its goal, the Prophet is the model, the Qur'an its constitution, jihad its path, and death for the sake of Allah its most sublime belief." Vowing to fight off the "Zionist invaders", the charter states, "The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews [and kill them]; until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: Oh Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!" Despite having a charter that called for the murder of Jews across the world, Israel actually bolstered this fundamentalist religious group, universally known as Hamas, during its formative years in the 1980s. After occupying the Gaza Strip, Israel encouraged the rise of Islamists as a way of undercutting the secular Palestine Liberation Organization, which Israel had always viewed as the greater threat. One of the individuals who Israel helped was Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gaza Strip, who had organized a charity that built mosques, clubs, and schools there. Less than 20 years later, the political situation in the Palestinian territories became far more complicated. Although the extent of cooperation between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority during the 90s and early 2000s was disputed, Hamas was voted into power in elections in the Gaza Strip and the two sides eventually engaged in a civil war in 2007, with Hamas crushing the PA's forces in the Gaza Strip and becoming the sole power in that territory. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Gallagher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/094407/bk_acx0_094407_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 265min
The Instant New York Times Best Seller This audiobook is read by the author. A war is being waged against us by radical Islamists, and, as current events demonstrate, they are only getting stronger. Al-Qaeda has morphed into a much more dangerous, menacing threat: ISIS. Lt. General Michael T. Flynn is blunt and urgent. This book aims to inform the American people of the grave danger we face in the war on terror - and will continue to face - until our government takes decisive action against the terrorists that want nothing more than to destroy us and our way of life. Flynn spent more than 33 years in Army intelligence, and as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency worked closely with Generals Stanley McChrystal and David Petraeus, Admiral Mike Mullen, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and other policy, defense, intelligence, and war-fighting leaders. From coordinating on-the-ground operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, to building reliable intelligence networks, to preparing strategic plans for fighting terrorism, Flynn has been a firsthand witness to government screw-ups, smokescreens, and censored information that our leaders don't want us to know. The Field of Fight succinctly lays out why we have failed to stop terrorist groups from growing, and what we must do to stop them. The core message is that if you understand your enemies, it's a lot easier to defeat them - but because our government has concealed the actions of terrorists like Osama bin Laden and groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda, and the role of Iran in the rise of radical Islam, we don't fully understand the enormity of the threat they pose against us. A call to action that is sensible, informed, and original, The Field of Fight asserts that we must find a way to not only fight better, but to win. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lt. General Michael T. Flynn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/002307/bk_aren_002307_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Story of the Banned Book (eBook, ePUB)
An award-winning account of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz's most controversial novel and the fierce debates that it provoked Naguib Mahfouz's novel Children of the Alley has been in the spotlight since it was first published in Egypt in 1959. It has been at times banned and at others allowed, sold sometimes under the counter and sometimes openly on the street, often pirated and only recently legally reprinted. It has inspired anxiety among the secular authorities, rage within the religious right, and a drawing of battle lines among Arab intellectuals and writers. It dogged Mahfouz like a curse throughout the remainder of his career, led to his attempted assassination, and sparked a public debate that continues to this day, even after the author's death in 2006. It is Egypt's iconic novel, in whose mirror millions have seen themselves, their society, and even the universe, some finding truth, others blasphemy.In this award-winning account, Mohamed Shoair traces the story of Mahfouz's novel as a cultural and political object, from its first publication to the present via Mahfouz's award of the Nobel prize for literature in 1988 and the attempt on his life in 1994. He presents the arguments that swirled about the novel and the wide cast of Egyptian figures, from state actors to secular intellectuals and Islamists, who took part in them. He also contextualizes the interactions among the principal characters, interactions that have done much to shape the country's present.Extensively researched and written in a lucid, accessible style, The Story of the Banned Book is both a gripping work of investigative journalism and a window onto some of the fiercest debates around culture and religion to have taken place in Egyptian society over the past half-century.- Shop: buecher
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The Shell Game , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 900min
The events of September 11, 2001, the invasion of Iraq, radical Islamists, an impending showdown with Iran - what do these have in common? Oil. And the world is running out. The Shell Game is far more than a thriller; it is a cautionary tale that exposes the next 9/11 event, a deception that will lead to a retaliatory chemical weapons strike on Iran and the terrorist elements that the regime supports. Though written as fiction, this novel is filled with all-too-real details provided by insiders in the oil industry, military, and Middle Eastern affairs, and extrapolates from real events of the past and presents a future that will lead us down a path of self-destruction, unless we stop the insanity now. In 2007, two CIA spooks meet with an American colonel in military intelligence. The war is going badly, and President Bush, who steadfastly refuses to back down, remains unchallenged at home as Democrats and Republicans focus on the 2008 elections. Meanwhile, Iran's pursuit of nuclear energy will yield enriched uranium by 2012 - uranium that could be used to manufacture suitcase nukes. The US military is too drained to invade Iran, and a preemptive strike is out of the question; unless, that is, a nuclear detonation were to occur in an American city - one in which the uranium can be traced to Iran. A US reprisal would strike a death blow to radical Islam, quell the insurgent violence in Iraq, and yield more oil. Yes, the cost is unthinkable, but doing nothing could result in a dozen suitcase bombs going off in a dozen American cities, bringing anarchy and the collapse of Western civilization. December 2011. Ashley "Ace" Futrell is an oil-industry expert married to Kelli Doyle, a former national security advisor and one of the CIA spooks in the 2007 meeting. When Kelli threatens to expose the plot, Ace finds his existence hurtling down a rabbit hole of deceit, in which the lies of the powerful few could lead to the darkest days of human exis ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Keith Szarabajka. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009330/bk_blak_009330_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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