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I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad - Community Reviews back

by Souad Mekhennet
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Sheila's Reads
Sheila's Reads rated it 5 years ago
Souad Mekhennet, a German born to parents of Moroccan and Turkish descent, becomes a journalist and goes into the Middle East where Americans often cannot easily go. I found this book so interesting. Ms. Mekhennet shows us the other side of the story as she works independently for the New York Tim...
Merle
Merle rated it 6 years ago
This memoir of a Muslim journalist reporting on jihad was interesting, though I wasn’t blown away in the way most reviewers seem to have been. Souad Mekhennet grew up primarily in Germany, the daughter of guest workers from Morocco and Turkey. She encountered racism and xenophobia on her way to beco...
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