Research Catalog

Title

The smarter bomb : women and children as suicide bombers / Anat Berko.

Author

Berko, Anat, 1960-

Publication

New York, NY : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012.

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Description

xv, 196 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Arab-Israeli conflict > 1993-
• Child suicide bombers
• Martyrdom > Islam
• Suicide bombers > Psychology
• Women suicide bombers

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / by Daniel Pipes -- Preface -- Introduction: "good enough to die, not good enough to marry" -- "Just as long as the girl doesn't make a mistake" -- Hamas deputy prime minister : "Whoever sends a woman to commit suicide is gahel (ignorant)" -- The engineer : "A virgin in paradise is like a little girl" -- Shariah judge: "Women lack two things : intelligence and religion" -- The adolescent terrorist : "You go to jail, you can study for your matriculation exams, you get special considerations if you are in jail" -- Brother and sister, suicide bombers -- Special bonuses for each and every shaheed -- Terrorist to her dispatcher : "Why did you betray me? : you know i love you" -- Clerics on women in the terrorist industry : "What will she get in paradise, a couple of virgins?" -- Salima, mother of seven : "My husband only thinks about himself, I don't love him." -- Nawal, Palestinian knife-wielder : "Jail in Israel is better than the hell at home." -- Women under interrogation -- How to talk to terrorists -- Arab lawyer : "Every woman involved in terrorism is a romantic." -- Nabil, dispatcher of terrorists : "A pity i sent her to blow herself up, she could have given birth to three men like me." -- Afterword: disrobe for an attack : the shaheeda as heroine? -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Bibliography.

ISBN

• 9781442219526 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1442219521 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781442219540 (electronic)
• 1442219548 (electronic)

LCCN

^^2012024452

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library