Inside Hamas
Subtitle: The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement
Publisher: Nation Books
Published: April 6, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781560259688
Subjects: Middle East - General; History; History - General History; History: World; Islamic Studies; Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism; History / Middle East; 1993-; Arab-Israeli conflict; Hamas; Islam and politics; Palestine
Description: "The radical Islamist movement Hamas shocked the world when it won a landslide election victory in January 2006 in the Palestinian occupied territories. One of the few journalists not to be surprised by this outcome was Zaki Chehab who has developed an international reputation as a fearless reporter and was one of the first to interview members the Iraqi resistance in May 2003. Fluent in Arabic, he is a Palestinian refugee who grew up in UN refugee camps and has unique access to and understanding of Hamas" -- publisher website (August 2007).