Title: The Mirage
Description: Wonderful alternative history (flipping a real tragedy on its head) where fundamentalist Christians bomb towers in Baghdad, Iraq.  Mustafa Baghdadi is part of homeland security team in Iraq w. Salim and Amal-fighting Christian terrorism when the twin towers in Baghdad are attacked.   Saddam Hussein is a gangster, Osama is a senator with evil intents.  Mustafa's team travel to USA to find source of artifacts that suggest the world is a mirage and the U of Arab States is not real, but USA is a superpower, meet David Koresh, Tim McVeigh, Rumsfeld; at end mirage goes away leaving them facing an unknown world.
Subjects: Terrorism, Fiction, Fiction, alternative history, New York Times reviewed
Places: Baghdad, New York NY, Washington DC
People: Fictional characters and some real people (Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Rumsfeld, McVeigh, Koresh)