The middle east program at the wilson center. We are very happy to have with us Hassan Hassan the coauthor of isis inside the army. He is based in abu dhabi. Here is that a couple of things straight. Very happy to host and end his book appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. Yesterday was number nine. I did not check it this morning. Today we will get a firsthand report in what is going on on the ground and the history of the movement. Thank you very much. I would like to talk of the talk would be sort of a few snapshots. That is how to understand isis and where it comes from. In the 1990s the second is the iraq war and the arab spring. And the 1990s two very interesting trends happened in iraq after it the first gulf war and the sanctions against the Saddam Hussein regime. The first one is Saddam Hussein integrated campaign the islamic faith campaign. What he did was to islam baptism, and a variety of measures to encourage people, he allowed baptists to study religion, go to m