“The foreigners were virulently contemptuous of the Syrians,” Sophie Kasiki observed in an ISIS-run hospital in Raqqa. “I saw one of the foreign volunteers insult a young Syrian woman, sobbing as she woke from her anaesthetic in a terrible state.” In the Shadow of Daeshby Sophie Kasiki and translated from French by Liz Harris is a rare memoir of an ISIS returnee. Kasiki, a young French social worker and convert to Islam, left her life in Europe and went to join Daesh in Syria only to become disillusioned and escape. While much has been written about the so-called Islamic State, In the Shadow i…