“I miss my mother.” It’s not what I expected to hear from a suicide bomber.
An excerpt from Payam Akhavan’s 2017 Massey Lecture explores the reality and psychology of ISIS fighters.
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In Search of a Better World
Payam Akhavan on the sacrifices needed to make the world safer
From 2017: A call to action from the UN’s youngest-ever war crimes prosecutor