Jennifer Jefferis: 2 books

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has long been an influential player in the tumultuous Middle East, but as the region's instability grows, so does the importance and potential influence of this organization. The fact that the Hamas of today defies most of the traditional categorizations of...

This book uses the theory of social movements and first-hand interviews to create a new analysis of religiously motivated political violence in the modern world.  Examining the movement to restore Sharia law to a dominant place in the Egyptian government,  the movement to make abortion illegal...