I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad

Winner of the Nannen Prize
Short-listed for the Al-Rodhan Prize
Named a Best Book of 2017 by The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Christian Science Monitor, and Publishers Weekly
Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize

"An enthralling and sometimes shocking blend of reportage and memoir from the centers of jihadi networks in the Middle East and North Africa. . . . Mekhennet has a singular perspective on the modern crisis of terrorist violence, intimate and constantly questioning."
—The New...