Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Map
Epigraph
Chapter One: Coke Does the Trick
Chapter Two: Religious Exile
Chapter Three: Welcome, Spring
Chapter Four: My Revolution
Chapter Five: Romance of the Streets
Chapter Six: The Masterpiece
Chapter Seven: Winter Is Coming
Chapter Eight: Dynamics of Powder and Bullets
Chapter Nine: A New Dawn
Chapter Ten: Jasmine
Chapter Eleven: Tareq, It Was Never an Easy Life
Chapter Twelve: Oh Brothers
Chapter Thirteen: The De Facto Capital
Chapter Fourteen: Jihadis Don’t Tip
Chapter Fifteen: Abu Mujahid’s Prosthetic Dick
Chapter Sixteen: Of Bright Dresses
Chapter Seventeen: iPhone Snapshots and Bombs
Chapter Eighteen: Al-Nuri Mosque
Chapter Nineteen: Why, Uncle?
Chapter Twenty: The Merciless Jungle I Missed
Chapter Twenty-one: The Aleppo of Yesterday
Chapter Twenty-two: The Days That Would Never Have Been
Chapter Twenty-three: I Am a Murtad
Chapter Twenty-four: Getting the Fuck Out of Raqqa
Chapter Twenty-five: Hevalen
Chapter Twenty-six: Al-Muhajireen Wal-Ansar
Chapter Twenty-seven: A Russian Feast
Chapter Twenty-eight: Journalist and Stuff
Epilogue: Goodbye
Dedication
Acknowledgments
About the Authors