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Farhana Qazi draws on her background as a pioneering counterterrorism professional and a devout Muslim to offer an insider's view of what drives girls and women to join radical Islamic movements, and identifies what America and the world community can do to keep them from making this terrible choiceWhy 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.
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Farhana Qazi is an American scholar and internationally recognized public speaker. She has spent nearly twenty years studying conflicts in the Muslim world, violent extremism and women in war. For her service to the U.S. military, Farhana received the 21st Century Leader Award, presented by the National Committee on American Foreign Policy in New York, and the Humanitarian Award for her study of women in conflict. She has appeared on CNN, BBC television and radio, Public Broadcasting Service, National Public Radio, Fox News, C-Span, Bloomberg, ABC News, Canadian national television, Voice of America, Al-Jazeera, The Daily Ledger Show and more. Her stories have been published in Foreign Policy, The International Herald Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, Nowhere, Marie Claire, Reuters, and more. To learn about her work, visit www.farhanaqazi.com
