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“Why do I write fact-based fiction? With secrecy so inscrutable, I'm looking to needle someone about someone or something.”

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“In Italian papers, rumor often takes the place of fact. Unconfirmed and overblown stories are often printed as fact - one trick is the frequent use of the conditional verb tense which translates into English as “is said to”...”

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Book:My Home Sweet Rome: Living (and loving) in Italy's Eternal City

Source: My Home Sweet Rome: Living (and loving) in Italy's Eternal City

“Conformity is deformity”

Historical Theology Historical Fiction Egypt Isis Memoirs Ancient Egypt Cleopatra

Author:Sharon Desruisseaux

“What makes the world so special?” she asked God, her voice laced with curiosity. “Your presence,” God replied instantly, “for it brings light and meaning to all that exists.”

World Life Quotes Life And Living Celebrate Life Living In The Moment Existence Quotes True To Life Life Philosophy Philosophy Celebrate Yourself

Book:Slipping into another world

Source: Slipping into another world

“Since leaving Kocho, I had begged for death, I had willed Salman to kill me or asked God to let me die or refused to eat or drink in the hopes I would fade away. I had thought many times that the man who raped and beat me would kill me. But death had never come. In the checkpoint bathroom, I began to cry. For the first time since I left Kocho, I thought I actually might die. And I also knew for sure that I didn't want to.”

Inspirational War Victim Iraq Rape Isis Biography Yazidi

Book:The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

Source: The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

“And say what you will about ISIS, but at least they're not Islamophobic.”

Isis Islamophobia

Book:Woke: A Guide to Social Justice

Source: Woke: A Guide to Social Justice

“She [Isis] invented a form of shorthand which she taught to the Egyptians and provided them a way to abridge their excessively involved script.”

Book:The Book of the City of Ladies

Source: The Book of the City of Ladies

“I propose that we change its abbreviation from ISIL or ISIS into a new name that contains the initial letters of each country or lobby that contributed to its existence.”

War Violence Propaganda Isis Iraq War Colonization Islamic State Isil Syrian Civil War Syrian War

Author:Louis Yako

“If Beirut was the supermarket of the left in the 1970s, where Marxists, communists, Egyptians, Iraqis, and all the Palestinian factions debated and theorized, published and drank in bars arguing over ideas and the fought in the streets, Peshawar was the supermarket of the Islamists in the 1980s without drinking: there the discussions were about Islamic law, fatwas, the war of the believers, the unity of the Muslim nation, and the humanitarian needs of Afghan refugees.”

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Book:Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

Source: Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

“FRANCOIS HOLLANDE, ROEI DAT ONKRUID VAN HET KALIFAAT NU EINDELIJK EENS UIT, STUUR JE TROEPEN, INCLUSIEF JE VREEMDELINGENLEGIOEN NAAR AR-RAQQAH EN DOE WAT VREDESDUIF OBAMA NALAAT TE DOEN, KUIS ER DE AUGIASSTALLEN OP DIE DE AMERIKANEN ER NALIETEN. EN DOE HET NIET MET VLIEGMACHIENTJES MAAR MET GRONDTROEPEN, VERDOMME!”

Islam Isis Jean Pierre Van Rossem Syrië Kalifaat Francois Hollande Het Kalifaat President Hollande

Book:ISIS & Het Kalifaat

Source: ISIS & Het Kalifaat

“I continue to marvel at this. We got incredibly angry when the city of Palmyra, Syria, was destroyed by IS because the city was reminiscent of pre-Muslim times, shall we say. And I see this as an extension of that. It is nonsense to think that you can erase a past that you don't like.”

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Author:Piet Emmer