Copyright © 2014, 2017 by Loretta Napoleoni

This is an updated edition of The Islamist Phoenix, published in 2014 by Seven Stories Press

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Napoleoni, Loretta, author.
Title: ISIS : the terror nation / Loretta Napoleoni.
Other titles: Islamist phoenix Description: Second edition. | New York :
Seven Stories Press, 2017. | First
edition published as: The Islamist phoenix : the Islamic
State and the redrawing of the Middle East.
New York: Seven Stories Press, 2014. |
Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017024597 | ISBN 9781609807252
Subjects: LCSH: IS (Organization) | Middle East--History--21st century.
| Islamic fundamentalism--History--21st century. | Terrorism--Middle
East.Classification: LCC HV6433.I722 N365 2017 |
DDC 956.05/4--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017024597

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