One year after the debut of the controversial bestseller,

Son of Hamas (March 2, 2010, SaltRiver), by Mosab Hassan Yousef, with Ron Brackin, Tyndale House released the long-awaited paperback edition, featuring an updated epilogue that includes the amazing account of Homeland Security’s attempt to deport Mosab as a terrorist.

“That was crazy,” Ron Brackin told reporters. “Mosab is the guy who keeps calling Muhammad a terrorist on international television.

“Last week, we were talking about all the turmoil in the Middle East, and he reminded me of his prediction in 2010 on FOX News that Islam would cease to exist within 10 years. Now, only two years later, Islamic regimes are crumbling faster than the Berlin Wall. Mosab said Islam has survived for fourteen decades only because it’s been crouching inside the high protective walls of ignorance and isolation. But the technical and information revolutions are tearing down those walls. One and a half billion Muslims can find the truth on the Internet at sites like www.thequran.com, in chat rooms and on satellite TV.”

Also on March 1, Son of Hamas became available in Arabic for free download worldwide. Al Hayat (Life) TV is distributing the electronic edition via the Internet on its web site (http://www.hayatv.tv/), Facebook page and through its email list. Al Hayat reaches 95 percent of the Arabic-speaking people of the world and is the first to challenge the deceptions of Islam. It is the most popular Arabic-language, Christian-content channel in the world, regularly reaching between 20 and 50 million Arabic-speaking people.

The Arabic-language download is also available at Tyndale House Publishers (www.tyndale.com).

Son of Hamas received global attention upon its release. In America, it was No. 11 on the New York Times bestselling hardcover, non-fiction list on March 21, 2010, moved into the Top Ten a week later and remained on the list for seven weeks.

Mosab Hassan Yousef was born in Ramallah, in the West Bank in 1978. His father, Sheikh Hassan Yousef, is a founding leader of Hamas, a terrorist organization responsible for countless suicide bombings and other deadly attacks against Israel. Yousef was an integral part of the movement, for which he was imprisoned several times by the Shin Bet, the Israeli intelligence service. He withstood torture in prison only to discover that Hamas was torturing its own people in a relentless search for collaborators. He began to question who his enemies really were—Israel? Hamas? America? After a chance encounter with a British tourist, Yousef started a six-year quest that jeopardized Hamas, endangered his family and threatened his life. He has since become a follower of Jesus Christ and received political asylum in the United States.

For more information, visit www.tyndale.com or www.sonofhamas.com for blog updates. To schedule Mosab Hassan Yousef as a media guest or guest speaker, please visit http://mediacenter.tyndale.com/1_products/details.asp?isbn=978-1-4143-3307-6.

Ron Brackin has traveled extensively in the Middle East as an investigative journalist. He was in the West Bank and Gaza during the Al-Aqsa Intifada, on assignment in Baghdad and Mosul after the fall of Iraq and more recently with the rebels and refugees of Southern Sudan and Darfur. He has contributed articles and columns to many publications, including USA Today and The Washington Times. Ron is the author of other nonfiction books, including Sweet Persecution, Between 2 Fires and Iraq, My Handiwork. He was a broadcast journalist with WTOP-AM, Post-Newsweek’s all-news radio station in Washington D.C. and weekend news anchor on Metromedia’s WASH-FM. And he served as a congressional press secretary under the Reagan Administration.

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