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Seasons of Fury by Rozina Ali

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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • A sweeping narrative history of the U.S. government’s broken compact with its Muslim citizens, culminating in the post-9/11 era of mass surveillance and increased violence—from an award-winning New York Times Magazine journalist.

“A deeply reported tale of hysteria, bigotry, surveillance, and persecution.”—Patrick Radden Keefe, #1 New York Times bestselling author of London Falling

Rozina Ali traces nearly a century of American policy toward its own Muslim citizens, from Cold War-era surveillance of Arab activists through the mass detentions and rhetoric of the War on Terror.

She tells this history through four families across eight decades — including a Syrian immigrant family in small-town Michigan and a Vietnam veteran turned civil rights organizer — showing how each generation absorbed a new version of the same suspicion.

Seasons of Fury argues that the fear driving these policies didn’t begin on September 11, and that understanding its longer history is necessary to understanding the present moment.

It’s a rigorously reported account that makes an abstract pattern of policy feel immediate, told through the people who lived — and are still living — its consequences.

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • A sweeping narrative history of the U.S. government’s broken compact with its Muslim citizens, culminating in the post-9/11 era of mass surveillance and increased violence—from an award-winning New York Times Magazine journalist.

“A deeply reported tale of hysteria, bigotry, surveillance, and persecution.”—Patrick Radden Keefe, #1 New York Times bestselling author of London Falling

Rozina Ali traces nearly a century of American policy toward its own Muslim citizens, from Cold War-era surveillance of Arab activists through the mass detentions and rhetoric of the War on Terror.

She tells this history through four families across eight decades — including a Syrian immigrant family in small-town Michigan and a Vietnam veteran turned civil rights organizer — showing how each generation absorbed a new version of the same suspicion.

Seasons of Fury argues that the fear driving these policies didn’t begin on September 11, and that understanding its longer history is necessary to understanding the present moment.

It’s a rigorously reported account that makes an abstract pattern of policy feel immediate, told through the people who lived — and are still living — its consequences.

  • Publisher: Crown (Penguin Random House)

    Title: Seasons of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America

    Author: Rozina Ali

    On Sale Date: August 25, 2026

    ISBN 13: 9780593239544

    Format: Hardcover

    Retail Price: $32.00

  • Rozina Ali is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and a fellow at New America and the Type Media Center. Her reporting on the War on Terror, Islamophobia, and the Middle East has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and Foreign Affairs, and she is a recipient of the National Magazine Award. Seasons of Fury is her first book.

    • A National Book Award longlist nonfiction title, praised as “a deeply reported tale of hysteria, bigotry, surveillance, and persecution” by bestselling author Patrick Radden Keefe.

    • An evenhanded, multigenerational account spanning the 1920s to the present, following four Muslim American families across eight decades.

    • Reporting drawn from archival records and firsthand interviews with the families themselves.

    • A history that traces the roots of American Islamophobia to well before September 11, 2001.

This book is for you if

  • You want narrative nonfiction that traces a policy history through the lived experience of real families.

  • You’re interested in the history of American Muslim communities and the long roots of the War on Terror.

  • You appreciate deeply reported journalism that connects the 1960s to the present day.

  • You’re drawn to multigenerational histories that follow the same families across decades.

  • You want to understand how surveillance and suspicion became embedded in American institutions well before 9/11.

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