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How Syria Changed the World: ISIS

30/05/2018

ISIS

BBC Radio 4 - How Syria Changed the World, ISIS

The rapid rise, fall and legacy of the self-styled Islamic State.

Edward Stourton and guests trace the rise, fall and legacy of the militant group which calls itself Islamic State. Is IS-style terrorism in the West now here to stay?

In July 2014, the Muslim cleric Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi addressed his followers as 'caliph', leader of a Muslim nation and successor to the Prophet Mohammed. It was the first time in almost a century that any significant figure in the Islamic world had claimed this ancient title, and it was a dramatic illustration that there was a powerful and terrifying new force in play: the radical Sunni Islamist militant group which calls itself Islamic State. Edward Stourton and guests trace the rapid rise, fall and legacy of the group.

Guests: 
Fawaz Gerges, Professor of Middle East Politics and International Relations at the London School of Economics
Patrick Cockburn, journalist and author of 'The Rise of Islamic State; ISIS and the new Sunni revolution'


Researcher: Louise Byrne
Producer: Ben Crighton.

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