It takes the average reader 4 hours and 32 minutes to read Life is More Beautiful Than Paradise by Khaled al-Berry
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In 1986, when this autobiography opens, the author is a typical fourteen-year-old boy in Asyut in Upper Egypt. Attracted at first by the image of a radical Islamist group as "strong Muslims," his involvement develops until he finds himself deeply committed to its beliefs and implicated in its activities. This ends when, as he leaves the university following a demonstration, he is arrested. Prison, a return to life on the outside, and attending Cairo University all lead to Khaled al-Berry's eventual alienation from radical Islam. This book opens a window onto the mind of an extremist who turns out to be disarmingly like many other clever adolescents, and bears witness to a history with whose reverberations we continue to live. It also serves as an intelligent and critical guide for the reader to the movement's unfamiliar debates and preoccupations, motives and intentions. Fluently written, intellectually gripping, exciting, and often funny, Life Is More Beautiful than Paradise provides a vital key to the understanding of a world that is both a source of fear and a magnet of curiosity for the west.
Life is More Beautiful Than Paradise by Khaled al-Berry is 271 pages long, and a total of 68,021 words.
This makes it 91% the length of the average book. It also has 83% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 11 minutes to read Life is More Beautiful Than Paradise aloud.
Life is More Beautiful Than Paradise is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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