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""This is an extraordinary book, written by an extraordinary woman. Qazi is a master storyteller, capturing the emotion as well as the subtleties of what she wants to communicate. And as the first Islamic member of the U.S. Counterterrorism Center, there is a lot that she wants to tell readers about."" -Anna Jedrziewski, Retailing Insight Why would a girl from Denver join ISIS, a radical movement known for its mistreatment of women? Why would a teenage Iraqi girl strap on a suicide bomb and detonate it? Farhana Qazi, the first Muslim woman to work for the U.S. government's Counterterrorism Center, has been fascinated, even obsessed, by this phenomena for over a decade and has circled the globe searching for answers. What she has found are women, sometimes confused, sometimes taken advantage of, and sometimes as radical and dedicated as their male counterparts, women whose stories she tells. Here is the book that reframes the story so readers can see the female terrorists as they are- ordinary women co-opted by radical men, other extremist women, or motivated by their own experience of oppression. The untold story of the women of these movements is important to understand and recognize if the world hopes to contain the expansion of these ever present threats.

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Farhana Qazi is a gender expert instructor at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, and a research fellow at the Center for Global Policy. She received the 21st Century Leader Award from the National Committee on American Foreign Policy in New York and the Humanitarian Award from her alma mater in Texas. Farhana Qazi is a gender expert instructor at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, and a research fellow at the Center for Global Policy. She received the 21st Century Leader Award from the National Committee on American Foreign Policy in New York and the Humanitarian Award from her alma mater in Texas. Farhana Qazi is a gender expert instructor at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, and a research fellow at the Center for Global Policy. She received the 21st Century Leader Award from the National Committee on American Foreign Policy in New York and the Humanitarian Award from her alma mater in Texas.

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