Van de een op de andere dag wemelen de straten in het Malinese Timboektoe van gewapende mannen met bedekte gezichten en lange gewaden. Met behulp van megafoons leggen ze de bevolking nieuwe leefregels op. Het zijn jihadisten die het bewind in de streek hebben overgenomen. Voetbal, roken en muziek zijn verboden, kledingvoorschriften worden ingevoerd en lijfstraffen toegepast volgens de regels van de sharia. Ook veebezitter Kidane en zijn gezin, die ver buiten de stad leven, ontkomen niet aan de invloedssfeer van de jihadisten.
De jonge Deense fotojournalist Daniel Rye wordt in Syrië gegijzeld door de terreurorganisatie IS, samen met verschillende andere buitenlanders waaronder de Amerikaanse journalist James Foley. Daniel moet strijden om te overleven in gevangenschap en sluit vriendschap met James. De familie Rye, thuis in Denemarken, probeert de angst het hoofd te bieden dat ze hun zoon misschien nooit meer levend zullen zien.
An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses (1988), thirty years after the fatwa uttered by the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini: his youth in multicultural Bombay, his life in England, his many years of forced hiding, his thoughts on President Trump's United States of America.
Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as Atatürk, the Father of the Turks, founder of the modern state, and the current president Recep Tayyıp Erdoğan, who apparently wants Turkey to regain the political and military pre-eminence it had as an empire under the Ottoman dynasty.
A unique interview with Tooba Gondal, the woman who groomed and lured scores of Western women to join ISIS. Using social media, she became a deadly matchmaker, recruiting a number of high-profile “jihadi brides” for ISIS militants in Syria: she allegedly helped organise the transporting of three British schoolgirls, including Shamima Begum, to Syria.
In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, a woman walks into a chadari store in Kabul to buy her first full-body veil and face an uncertain future.
An exploration into the motives and histories of individuals, including herself, who have exited the world of violent extremism.
Terrorist attacks, riots, and gang rapes are striking at the very foundations of Europe. This is the story of a Danish expatriate and his quest to uncover the growing issues within the European society he left 15 years ago.
At the turn of 1990 in Algeria, in an end-of-era atmosphere marked by the victory of the Islamists in the municipal elections, then in the interrupted legislative elections of 1991, a prelude to a decade of particularly barbaric violence, the Algerians will experience the radical Islamism, its desire to rule public and private life and a daily life of attacks, assassinations, then collective massacres, which left 200,000 dead. Literature and cinema have strived to question and bear witness to the enormous trauma of this period called the “black decade”.