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Searching for Saleem

Author : Farooka Gauhari
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803221567
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Searching for Saleem written by Farooka Gauhari and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searching for Saleem is a first-person account—written by a wife, mother, and professional—of a national tragedy that interrupted daily life in Afghanistan after the communist coup of April 1978. Farooka Gauhari tells of her desperate attempts to find out what happened to her missing husband, Saleem, and her gradual, painful decision to leave the country with her three children. In a broader sense, her story reflects the harrowing experiences of countless Afghan families: their sufferings and their struggles to maintain their identities under totalitarian rule. It typifies the kinds of human rights violations practiced against scores of Afghans who disappeared into dark cells or were executed without trials by successions of communist governments.

An Afghan Woman's Odyssey

Author : Farooka Gauhari
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803271166
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book An Afghan Woman's Odyssey written by Farooka Gauhari and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Afghan Woman's Odyssey is a first-person account of the tragedy that disrupted daily life in Afghanistan after the Communist coup of April 1978, events that eventually contributed to the volatile Taliban rule. This is the tale of a woman desperate to find her missing husband and her painful decision finally to abandon the search and to leave the country with her three children. Her story typifies the kinds of human-rights violations that became common practice after the Soviet invasion and made way for the later abuses of the Taliban.

In Afghanistan

Author : Jere Van Dyk
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059521553X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book In Afghanistan written by Jere Van Dyk and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Afghanistan is the story of a young man, searching for adventure and self-discovery in war-torn Afghanistan during the time of the Soviet invasion. It is also a portrait of an exotic land and people desperately struggling for survival during that war, as they are today. In 1981, with a letter and some financial backing from The New York Times, Van Dyk, bearded and dressed as an Afghan, sneaked into Afghanistan , then off-limits to foreigners, and lived in the ruggedly-beautiful mountains and desert of this country with the Mujahideen, the men then fighting the Soviet Union. “My spine tingled like a boy’s. I felt the sensation of adventure…The Turbans of ten laughing young men, armed to the teeth, flapped in the wind…I would not have traded this moment for all the money in the world. It was suicidal, magnificent, and I knew we’d be all right.” But it was close. He lived through Soviet ground and helicopter attacks, saw death and suffering, but also laughter. He had much to learn about Islam, tribal traditions and the holy war the guerrillas were waging. He was accused of being a Soviet spy, but ultimately won the trust of his Afghan guides. He saw a strong, courageous, often frightened people fighting to protect the only thing they knew--their homes, their families, their way of life. The author, a former runner, a fledgling politician and writer, who grew up in a fundamentalist Christian family in a small town in the Northwest, also went looking for something deep among these men who shouted “God is Great” and went into battle against the Red Army. His story is about the people he met and his journey.

Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan

Author : Ludwig W. Adamec
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810878151
Total Pages : 667 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan written by Ludwig W. Adamec and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new fourth edition has been substantially expanded because so much has taken place in such a short period of time. The most important changes, however, have been made to the dictionary section, with hundreds of added or substantially revised entries on important people, places, events, institutions, practices, ethnic and religious groups, political parties, and Islamist movements, as well as significant aspects of Afghanistan's politics, economy, society, and culture.

Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan

Author : Thomas H. Johnson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 153814929X
Total Pages : 781 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan written by Thomas H. Johnson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afghanistan is an extremely complex and nuanced country that has been one of the centers of imperial conflict at least for 150 years. From the Czarist Russia’s march south in the 19th Century threatening British India, three Anglo-Afghan Wars, the Soviet Invasion and occupation of Afghanistan starting in December 1979 and the resulting anti-Soviet Jihad by the Afghan Mujahideen to Kabul’s and their allies’ (U.S. and NATO) conflict with the Taliban, Afghanistan has been one of the centers of important international and regional conflicts and events. Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan, Fifth Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Afghanistan.

The Afghan Mona Lisa

Author : Anosha Roya Zereh
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483646858
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book The Afghan Mona Lisa written by Anosha Roya Zereh and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Afghan woman has been spoken for, depicted in numerous ways since the fall of the Taliban in 2011. Afghan women have been represented in the Western media, both in the television and the news broadcast copiously. They have made the Times magazine cover page, revealed in the National Geographic, and have been pronounced as victims of womans rights. Their crime simply being born in Afghanistan as a woman in an era unfavorable to their gender. I have investigated and listened to long hours of heartbreaking stories by Afghan women in numerous countries, conversed with old and young women, and read plentiful anecdotes of Afghan womens narratives around the world for over ten years. Although I cannot claim what they have experienced completely, I have exerted years of love inscribing for them their narratives, their depiction of what took place in their lives, as well as their interpretation of their struggles and daily burdens. Although they are my words, nevertheless they represent their rightful voice. While it is my pen that was used to write these poems, in every poem, in every verse, it is the fighting potency of these women. And we witness through their lens the long-suffering echoed throughout the book in their own words. I am blessed to have been favored as an unassuming envoy for their voices.

A Woman Among Warlords

Author : Malalai Joya
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781439132487
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book A Woman Among Warlords written by Malalai Joya and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malalai Joya has been called "the bravest woman in Afghanistan." At a constitutional assembly in Kabul in 2003, she stood up and denounced her country's powerful NATO-backed warlords. She was twenty-five years old. Two years later, she became the youngest person elected to Afghanistan's new Parliament. In 2007, she was suspended from Parliament for her persistent criticism of the warlords and drug barons and their cronies. She has survived four assassination attempts to date, is accompanied at all times by armed guards, and sleeps only in safe houses. Often compared to democratic leaders such as Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi, this extraordinary young woman was raised in the refugee camps of Iran and Pakistan. Inspired in part by her father's activism, Malalai became a teacher in secret girls' schools, holding classes in a series of basements. She hid her books under her burqa so the Taliban couldn't find them. She also helped establish a free medical clinic and orphanage in her impoverished home province of Farah. The endless wars of Afghanistan have created a generation of children without parents. Like so many others who have lost people they care about, Malalai lost one of her orphans when the girl's family members sold her into marriage. While many have talked about the serious plight of women in Afghanistan, Malalai Joya takes us inside the country and shows us the desperate dayto-day situations these remarkable people face at every turn. She recounts some of the many acts of rebellion that are helping to change the country -- the women who bravely take to the streets in peaceful protest against their oppression; the men who step forward and claim "I am her mahram," so the fundamentalists won't punish a woman for walking alone; and the families that give their basements as classrooms for female students. A controversial political figure in one of the most dangerous places on earth, Malalai Joya is a hero for our times, a young woman who refused to be silent, a young woman committed to making a difference in the world, no matter the cost.

The Women of Afghanistan Under the Taliban

Author : Rosemarie Skaine
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786481749
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Women of Afghanistan Under the Taliban written by Rosemarie Skaine and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though the people of Afghanistan in general suffered under the rule of the Taliban, women lived especially difficult lives, enduring terrible hardships. They were denied basic human rights, forced to wear veils and kept in seclusion. This work addresses the religion, revolution, and national identity of Afghan women and places them within their gender-political and religious-political roles, thus elevating our understanding of their abuse, imprisonment and murder, and offering a basis for their rehabilitation. Powerful and moving interviews with Afghan women conducted and translated by the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan are presented and a brief history of the struggle of the Afghan women and an overview of the conflict between the Afghans and the Taliban are included.

Afghanistan

Author : Heather Bleaney
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047416678
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Afghanistan written by Heather Bleaney and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This up-to-date, comprehensive, thematically indexed bibliography devoted to Afghanistan now and yesterday will help readers to efficiently find their way in the massive secondary literature available. Following the pattern established by one of its major data sources, viz. the acclaimed Index Islamicus, both journal articles and book publications are included and expertly indexed. An indispensable entry for all those taking professional or personal interest in a nation so much the focus of attention today.

One Story, Thirty Stories

Author : Zohra Saed
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610752902
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book One Story, Thirty Stories written by Zohra Saed and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 9/11 there has been a cultural and political blossoming among those of the Afghan diaspora, especially in the United States, revealing a vibrant, active, and intellectual Afghan American community. And the success of Khaled Hosseni's The Kite Runner, the first work of fiction written by an Afghan American to become a bestseller, has created interest in the works of other Afghan American writers. One Story, Thirty Stories (or "Afsanah, Seesaneh," the Afghan equivalent of "once upon a time") collects poetry, fiction, essays, and selections from two blogs from thirty-three men and women—poets, fiction writers, journalists, filmmakers and video artists, photographers, community leaders and organizers, and diplomats. Some are veteran writers, such as Tamim Ansary and Donia Gobar, but others are novices and still learning how to craft their own "story," their unique Afghan American voice. The fifty pieces in this rich anthology reveal journeys in a new land and culture. They show people trying to come to grips with a life in exile, or they trace the migration maps of parents. They navigate the jagged landscape of the Soviet invasion, the civil war of the 1990s and the rise of the Taliban, and the ongoing American occupation.

Afghanistan

Author : C. Heather Bleaney
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900414532X
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Afghanistan written by C. Heather Bleaney and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a thematically indexed bibliography devoted to Afghanistan. Following the pattern established by one of its major data sources, viz, the acclaimed Index Islamicus, both journal articles and book publications are included and indexed.

Reading Khaled Hosseini

Author : Rebecca Stuhr
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0313355118
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Reading Khaled Hosseini written by Rebecca Stuhr and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses Hosseini's fiction and its relation to current events and popular culture.

The Afghanistan Wars

Author : William Maley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135030767X
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Afghanistan Wars written by William Maley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A whole generation has grown up in Afghanistan knowing little but the ravages of war. The dramatic overthrow of the Taliban regime in 2001 was simply one event in a series of interrelated struggles which have blighted ordinary people's lives over the last three decades, and which continue to interfere with reconciliation and reconstruction. This new edition of The Afghanistan Wars provides a meticulously-documented history of these successive waves of conflict. From the roots of Afghanistan's slide into disorder in the late 1970s to the challenges faced by Afghan leaders following the substantial withdrawal of international forces in 2014, it explores military and diplomatic history while also offering valuable insight on humanitarian action, gender, medical and cultural themes. Thoroughly revised in the light of the latest research, the third edition also features a new final chapter which examines recent developments in Afghanistan, bringing the story up to the present day and mounting a strong case for continuing support for this troubled country. New to this Edition: - A final chapter on the recent developments in Afghanistan up to the present day - Revised to take into account the considerable amount of new material published on this topic since 2009 - Refreshed and updated throughout

Transition in Afghanistan

Author : William Maley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351389769
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Transition in Afghanistan written by William Maley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, by one of the most experienced authorities on the subject, presents a deep analysis of the very difficult current situation in Afghanistan. Covering a wide range of important subjects including state-building, democracy, war, the rule of law, and international relations, the book draws out two overarching key factors: the way in which the prevailing neopatrimonial political order has become entrenched, making it very difficult for any other political order to take root; and the hostile region in which Afghanistan is located, especially the way in which an ongoing ‘creeping invasion’ from Pakistani territory has compromised the aspirations of both the Afghan government and its international backers to move the country to a more stable position.

Zoya's Story

Author : John Follain
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062037293
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Zoya's Story written by John Follain and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kabul was always more beautiful in the snow. Even the piles of rotting rubbish in my street, the only source of food for the scrawny chickens and goats that our neighbors kept outside their mud houses, looked beautiful to me after the snow had covered them in white during the long night. Though she is only twenty-three, Zoya has witnessed and endured more tragedy and terror than most people experience in a lifetime. Born in a land ravaged by war, she was robbed of her parents when they were murdered by Muslim fundamentalists. Devastated, she fled Kabul with her grandmother and started a new life in exile in Pakistan. She joined the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), an organization that challenged the crushing edicts of the Taliban government, and she took destiny into her own hands, joining a dangerous, clandestine war to save her nation. Direct and unsentimental, Zoya vividly brings to life the realities of growing up in a Muslim culture, the terror of living in a perpetual war zone, the pain of losing those she has loved, the horrors of a woman’s life under the Taliban, and the discovered healing and transformation that lead her on a path of resistance.

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature [3 volumes]

Author : Guiyou Huang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1567207367
Total Pages : 1250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (672 download)

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Download or read book The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature [3 volumes] written by Guiyou Huang and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian American literature dates back to the close of the 19th century, and during the years following World War II it significantly expanded in volume and diversity. Monumental in scope, this encyclopedia surveys Asian American literature from its origins through 2007. Included are more than 270 alphabetically arranged entries on writers, major works, significant historical events, and important terms and concepts. Thus the encyclopedia gives special attention to the historical, social, cultural, and legal contexts surrounding Asian American literature and central to the Asian American experience. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and cites works for further reading, and the encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography of essential print and electronic resources. While literature students will value this encyclopedia as a guide to writings by Asian Americans, the encyclopedia also supports the social studies curriculum by helping students use literature to learn about Asian American history and culture, as it pertains to writers from a host of Asian ethnic and cultural backgrounds, including Afghans, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos, Iranians, Indians, Vietnamese, Hawaiians, and other Asian Pacific Islanders. The encyclopedia supports the literature curriculum by helping students learn more about Asian American literature. In addition, it supports the social studies curriculum by helping students learn about the Asian American historical and cultural experience.

The Favored Daughter

Author : Fawzia Koofi
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 0230341888
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Favored Daughter written by Fawzia Koofi and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Koofi's New York Times bestseller, The Favored Daughter, is the true and inspiring story of how one Afghani woman overcame poverty and prejudice to become the first female speaker of the Afghani Parliament and a leading contender for president. The nineteenth daughter of a local village leader in rural Afghanistan, Fawzia Koofi was left to die in the sun after birth by her mother. But she survived, and perseverance in the face of extreme hardship has defined her life ever since. Despite the abuse of her family, the exploitative Russian and Taliban regimes, the murders of her father, brother, and husband, and numerous attempts on her life, she rose to become the first Afghani woman Parliament speaker. Here, she shares her amazing story, punctuated by a series of poignant letters she wrote to her two daughters before each political trip—letters describing the future and freedoms she dreamed of for them and for all the women of Afghanistan.