The Short Unhappy Life Of Ahmed Al-Darawy

He was consumed with the idea that Arab “greatness” was lost, that the Arab world, as he saw it, was going down the drain. And of course he could never allow himself to analyze the role of Islam, the Islam that explains the many failures, political, economic, social, intellectual, and moral, of the Muslim Arabs. So instead when his Tahrir Square fantasies were not realized, he took his hopes and dreams to the Al-Nusra Front in Syria, and then to the Islamic State, and he died fighting for that Islamic State. Quite a trajectory.

Story here.