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This article examines Rachid Bouchareb’s London River, Hors la loi and La Route d’Istanbul. The trilogy explores terrorism’s many forms that range from anti-colonial and ethno-national to state and jihadist terror in the twentieth century. Hors la loi, a narrative of anti-colonial Algerian terrorism, exposes the juxtaposing meanings of being outside the law – as victims of the unjust colonial law and as a strategy to use victimhood as a weapon. London River and La Route d’Istanbul, on the other hand, by focusing on the grief of politically neutral parents, leave the origins and causes of jihadist terrorism unexplored