Ed Husain was an Islamist radical for five years in his late teens and early twenties. Having rejected extremism he travelled widely in the Middle East and worked for the British Council in Syria and Saudi Arabia. Husain received wide and various acclaim for The Islamist, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for political writing and the PEN/Ackerley Prize for literary autobiography, amongst others. He is a co-founder of the Quillium Foundation, Britain's first Muslim counter extremism think tank. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.

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   Boken förmedlar kunskap om regionala och andra former av islam och, framför allt, om ursprunget av IS, hur det växte sig starkt i London och vad som lockar ungdomar.

   B

   06 juli 2017

Ed Husain was an Islamist radical for five years in his late teens and early twenties. Having rejected extremism he travelled widely in the Middle East and worked for the British Council in Syria and Saudi Arabia. Husain received wide and various acclaim for The Islamist, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for political writing and the PEN/Ackerley Prize for literary autobiography, amongst others. He is a co-founder of the Quillium Foundation, Britain's first Muslim counter extremism think tank. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.

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1. 5/5

   Viktig kunskap

   Boken förmedlar kunskap om regionala och andra former av islam och, framför allt, om ursprunget av IS, hur det växte sig starkt i London och vad som lockar ungdomar.

   B

   06 juli 2017

Ed Husain was an Islamist radical for five years in his late teens and early twenties. Having rejected extremism he travelled widely in the Middle East and worked for the British Council in Syria and Saudi Arabia. Husain received wide and various acclaim for The Islamist, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for political writing and the PEN/Ackerley Prize for literary autobiography, amongst others. He is a co-founder of the Quillium Foundation, Britain's first Muslim counter extremism think tank. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.

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1. 5/5

   Viktig kunskap

   Boken förmedlar kunskap om regionala och andra former av islam och, framför allt, om ursprunget av IS, hur det växte sig starkt i London och vad som lockar ungdomar.

   B

   06 juli 2017