Life Is More Beautiful Than Paradise: A Jihadist's Own Story

by Khaled Al-Berry

Book Overview

An autobiographical account of a young man's journey into extremism

In 1986, when this memoir opens, Khaled al-Berry is a typical fourteen-year-old boy in Asyut in Upper Egypt. Soon, his love of soccer draws him into the orbit of members of a radical Islamist group, university students from the surrounding countryside who play the game regularly on a pitch near his home. Attracted at first by the image of the group as "strong Muslims,"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617979651
• ISBN13: 9781617979651
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.9"