Guest House for Young Widows follows the lives of women who travelled to join ISIS.

Rather than reducing its subjects to caricatures of fanaticism or victimhood, Azadeh Moaveni reconstructs the social, political and emotional conditions that drew young women from Britain, Tunisia, Germany and elsewhere into the so-called Islamic State, tracing the complicated paths that led them there and, for some, back again.

Drawing on years of reporting across the Middle East, Moaveni situates these individual stories within the upheavals of the Arab Spring, the Syrian civil war, migration, identity, religion and online radicalisation. The result is one of the most nuanced accounts of women and ISIS written to date: deeply reported, ethically attentive and unwilling to flatten human lives into ideology alone. Essential reading for those interested in contemporary politics, feminism, journalism, Middle Eastern history and the psychology of extremism.

Paperback. First Scribe edition, 2019. Light shelf wear with minor edge rubbing; clean throughout with a tight, square binding.