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Speaking for themselves

Roger Hardy — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:12 GMT

Young, British and Muslim Philip Lewis Continuum, 192pp, �12.99

Girl trouble

Roger Hardy — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:00:00 GMT

Girls of Riyadh Rajaa Alsanea Penguin, 303pp, �12.99 ISBN 1594201218

Kingdom of God

Roger Hardy — Mon, 07 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT

Funded by Iran and Saudi Arabia, hated by Washington and Israel, can the Islamist party Hamas cling to power in Palestine?

The F-word

Roger Hardy — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:00:00 GMT

From Afghanistan to the Bible Belt, fundamentalism is locked in a struggle with secular modernity. But it is more complex than shock headlines suggest

A long and bloody crusade

Roger Hardy — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:00:00 GMT

The Looming Tower: al-Qaeda�s road to 9/11 Lawrence Wright Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 470pp, �20 Al-Qaeda may be a source of terror today, but its evolution has been marked by uncertainty, upheaval and, at times, comical ineptness. Roger Hardy on the roots of global jihad

Know thy enemy

Roger Hardy — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:00:00 GMT

On the Road to Kandahar: travels through conflict in the Islamic world Jason Burke Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 297pp, �20 ISBN 0755309855

In the killing fields. Robert Fisk has spent his life cataloguing the misery inflicted on the Muslim world by the west. Roger Hardy on a remarkable, flawed and deeply draining history

Roger Hardy — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:00:00 GMT

The Great War For Civilisation: the conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk Fourth Estate, 1,366pp, �25 ISBN 184115007X