Home Fire Terms

ISIS (also known as ISIL) is a terrorist militant group that follows a fundamentalist jihadist doctrine of Sunni Islam. ISIS gained global prominence in 2014 when it drove Iraqi government forces out of key cities… read analysis of ISIS/The Islamic State

The Home Secretary is head of the Home Office and a senior cabinet member in Britain. The Home Secretary is largely responsible for national security and immigration in the United Kingdom. In Home Fire… read analysis of Home Secretary

MI5 is Britain’s domestic counter-intelligence and security agency, the equivalent of the Homeland Security department in the United States. In the book, agents from MI5 come to Isma, Aneeka, and Parvaiz’s home… read analysis of MI5

A jihadi is an Islamic militant. In Home Fire, Adil is a jihadi fighter in Bosnia in the 1990s. ISIS is a group that is comprised of jihadis, and the women they recruit to… read analysis of Jihadi