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Seduced by an Afghan

Author : Joan Kayeum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781094963709
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (637 download)

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Download or read book Seduced by an Afghan written by Joan Kayeum and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Afghan student and an American risk everything for love in this emotional and unforgettable story that takes place during the 1940s. In this compelling and passionate memoir, Joan Kayeum tells the story of her journey from a Greek neighborhood in Chicago to Afghanistan, a Muslim country mired in the past. With affection and humor, she paints a colorful picture of growing up Greek in Chicago. Encouraged by her father, who taught his children if they worked and studied hard the sky was the limit, and expected her to marry a Greek American, Joan went on to study at the University of Chicago where she is exposed to a new and exciting world of intellectual stimulation, freedom, and a veritable United Nations of foreign students. It was there she met the love of her life, the dashing, swarthy Afghan student Abdul Kayeum. Multilingual, knowledgeable, and worldly, Abdul's charismatic personality was a magnet to all who met him. He regaled Joan and her friends with stories of his beloved home country and a childhood where he grew up, cared for by three mothers-his birth mother and his father's other two wives. Seduced by an Afghan, An Unlikely Love Story, tells of a clash of two cultures and a love that bridged the differences-a love so strong that Abdul challenges his country's laws prohibiting marriage to foreign women, and Joan defies the strictures of her upbringing to follow her heart. All net proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to Joan Kayeum's foundation, FEDA (Foundation for Educational Development of Afghans) and other charities designed to promote the education of young girls and boys who live in the provinces of Afghanistan.

The Places in Between

Author : Rory Stewart
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0156031566
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book The Places in Between written by Rory Stewart and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rory Stewart recounts the experiences he had walking across Afghanistan in 2002, describing how the country and its people have been impacted by the Taliban and the American military's involvement in the region.

Afghan Patriot

Author : Joan Kayeum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781096634539
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Afghan Patriot written by Joan Kayeum and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike most Afghan history books that focus on rulers and wars, Afghan Patriot is the story of a scholarship student from the province of Laghman who went to America and returned to his beloved county in 1948 with a doctorate degree in education, an American wife, and a dream-"to help my country catch up with the caravan of civilization." As told by his wife, Joan Kayeum, this is the story of how Dr. Abdul Kayeum's relentless efforts throughout his educational and political careers contributed to a golden age in Afghanistan, a time when its political system during the 1960's and 1970's evolved into a constitutional democracy and the beginnings of a liberal society were forged. The text is supplemented with photographs of Dr. Kayeum as his career advances, and includes selected excerpts of his letters to world leaders. All net proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to Joan Kayeum's foundation, FEDA (Foundation for Educational Development of Afghans) and other charities designed to promote the education of young girls and boys who live in the provinces of Afghanistan.

From Afghanistan With Love

Author : Teejay LeCapois
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329527305
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book From Afghanistan With Love written by Teejay LeCapois and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Salam Alaikum, friends. My name is Andisha "Andi" Khairzad. I was born in the province of Nimruz, Afghanistan, and raised in the City of Montreal, Quebec. My parents Aziz and Azra own Chez Khairzad, a lovely restaurant located in suburban Laval. I studied for my Master's degree in Anthropology at the University of Ottawa, and got married right after graduation to Ali Haidari, a handsome young Afghan immigrant. Things didn't work out and Ali divorced me. I led a lonely life in the Capital until I met Bilal Tunani, a handsome engineer from Central African Republic. We fell in love, against all odds. My parents just about lost their minds when they found out about us. It's basically us against the world, Bilal and I. This is our story.

The Afghanistan Papers

Author : Craig Whitlock
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982159014
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Afghanistan Papers written by Craig Whitlock and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about America’s longest war, foreshadowing the Taliban’s recapture of Afghanistan, by Washington Post reporter and three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Craig Whitlock. Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had near-unanimous public support. At first, the goals were straightforward and clear: defeat al-Qaeda and prevent a repeat of 9/11. Yet soon after the United States and its allies removed the Taliban from power, the mission veered off course and US officials lost sight of their original objectives. Distracted by the war in Iraq, the US military become mired in an unwinnable guerrilla conflict in a country it did not understand. But no president wanted to admit failure, especially in a war that began as a just cause. Instead, the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations sent more and more troops to Afghanistan and repeatedly said they were making progress, even though they knew there was no realistic prospect for an outright victory. Just as the Pentagon Papers changed the public’s understanding of Vietnam, The Afghanistan Papers contains “fast-paced and vivid” (The New York Times Book Review) revelation after revelation from people who played a direct role in the war from leaders in the White House and the Pentagon to soldiers and aid workers on the front lines. In unvarnished language, they admit that the US government’s strategies were a mess, that the nation-building project was a colossal failure, and that drugs and corruption gained a stranglehold over their allies in the Afghan government. All told, the account is based on interviews with more than 1,000 people who knew that the US government was presenting a distorted, and sometimes entirely fabricated, version of the facts on the ground. Documents unearthed by The Washington Post reveal that President Bush didn’t know the name of his Afghanistan war commander—and didn’t want to meet with him. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld admitted that he had “no visibility into who the bad guys are.” His successor, Robert Gates, said: “We didn’t know jack shit about al-Qaeda.” The Afghanistan Papers is a “searing indictment of the deceit, blunders, and hubris of senior military and civilian officials” (Tom Bowman, NRP Pentagon Correspondent) that will supercharge a long-overdue reckoning over what went wrong and forever change the way the conflict is remembered.

Afghan Modern

Author : Robert D. Crews
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674495764
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Afghan Modern written by Robert D. Crews and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rugged, remote, riven by tribal rivalries and religious violence, Afghanistan seems to many a country frozen in time and forsaken by the world. Afghan Modern presents a bold challenge to these misperceptions, revealing how Afghans, over the course of their history, have engaged and connected with a wider world and come to share in our modern globalized age. Always a mobile people, Afghan travelers, traders, pilgrims, scholars, and artists have ventured abroad for centuries, their cosmopolitan sensibilities providing a compass for navigating a constantly changing world. Robert Crews traces the roots of Afghan globalism to the early modern period, when, as the subjects of sprawling empires, the residents of Kabul, Kandahar, and other urban centers forged linkages with far-flung imperial centers throughout the Middle East and Asia. Focusing on the emergence of an Afghan state out of this imperial milieu, he shows how Afghan nation-making was part of a series of global processes, refuting the usual portrayal of Afghans as pawns in the “Great Game” of European powers and of Afghanistan as a “hermit kingdom.” In the twentieth century, the pace of Afghan interaction with the rest of the world dramatically increased, and many Afghan men and women came to see themselves at the center of ideological struggles that spanned the globe. Through revolution, war, and foreign occupations, Afghanistan became even more enmeshed in the global circulation of modern politics, occupying a pivotal position in the Cold War and the tumultuous decades that followed.

Not So Long Ago In Afghanistan

Author : Joan Kayeum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781094979373
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (793 download)

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Download or read book Not So Long Ago In Afghanistan written by Joan Kayeum and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the young bride of an Afghan student she met at the University of Chicago, the author went to Afghanistan in 1948 where she was intrigued with a popular riddle game in which all members of the family participated. In addition to providing the evening's entertainment, the game nurtured socialization between young and old, and bound family relationships through cheerful merrymaking. In Not So Long Ago in Afghanistan, the author translated her collection of riddles into rhythmical English rhymes and presents them in a manner that recreates the social setting she experienced when she lived there. The original paintings by artist Pat Siddiq hide the clues to the riddle answers, and also acquaint the reader with family members in a social context that enhances the reality of an evening not so long ago when life in Afghanistan was peaceful and full of joy.All net proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to Joan Kayeum's foundation, FEDA (Foundation for Educational Development of Afghans) and other charities designed to promote the education of young girls and boys who live in the provinces of Afghanistan.

Afghan Modern

Author : Robert D. Crews
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067428609X
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Retreat and Retribution in Afghanistan 1842

Author : Margaret Kekewich
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 184468590X
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Retreat and Retribution in Afghanistan 1842 written by Margaret Kekewich and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-06-13 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The blow to British pride and confidence caused by the crushing defeat of their army in Afghanistan during the winter of 1841/2 compares in its impact to the disaster in New York on 11 September 2001. The British had replaced a popular and effective monarch with a weak one in the mistaken belief that he would keep the Russians at bay. Two years later, nearly all the British and Indian soldiers in the region were killed in a popular uprising.Margaret Kekewichs perceptive new study of the conflict describes the British defeat, their reoccupation of Afghanistan in the spring of 1842, then their final withdrawal at the end of the year. Her account, which is based on the graphic diaries written by two British eyewitnesses, gives a fascinating insight into the conflict in Afghanistan 150 years ago.The story is told by, first, Lady Sale who together with over 100 women, children and soldiers was captured and imprisoned by the Afghans. The second account comes from the Reverend Allen, a young chaplain to the army that invaded Afghanistan in April 1842 to avenge British humiliation and rescue the prisoners. Both these eyewitnesses deplored the follies that had led to war and defeat and also the suffering that was inflicted on many innocent Afghans.At a time when British forces are deeply engaged in another war in Afghanistan, Margaret Kekewich offers a balanced and thought-provoking new perspective on a previous conflict in the region.

The Hardest Place

Author : Wesley Morgan
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812985222
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Hardest Place written by Wesley Morgan and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COLBY AWARD WINNER • “One of the most important books to come out of the Afghanistan war.”—Foreign Policy “A saga of courage and futility, of valor and error and heartbreak.”—Rick Atkinson, author of the Liberation Trilogy and The British Are Coming Of the many battlefields on which U.S. troops and intelligence operatives fought in Afghanistan, one remote corner of the country stands as a microcosm of the American campaign: the Pech and its tributary valleys in Kunar and Nuristan. The area’s rugged, steep terrain and thick forests made it a natural hiding spot for local insurgents and international terrorists alike, and it came to represent both the valor and futility of America’s two-decade-long Afghan war. Drawing on reporting trips, hundreds of interviews, and documentary research, Wesley Morgan reveals the history of the war in this iconic region, captures the culture and reality of the conflict through both American and Afghan eyes, and reports on the snowballing missteps—some kept secret from even the troops fighting there—that doomed the American mission. The Hardest Place is the story of one of the twenty-first century’s most unforgiving battlefields and a portrait of the American military that fought there.

Rain

Author : Barney Campbell
Publisher : Michael Joseph
ISBN 13 : 9780718181253
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (812 download)

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Download or read book Rain written by Barney Campbell and published by Michael Joseph. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE EVENING STANDARD'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 Barney Campbell's Rain is a searingly powerful début that reads like a British Matterhorn ******** 'A wonderfully achieved, enthralling and moving novel of war. Its authenticity is as telling as it is terrifying' William Boyd 'No better on-the-ground description of Britain's war will ever be written. Rain is what Chickenhawk or, more recently, Matterhorn was to Vietnam. It's unputdownable, except for when the reader needs to draw breath or battle a lump in the throat' Evening Strandard Corporal Thomas (my acting sergeant since Adams died) and I have to go down the line of the boys as they're checking their kit before we go out. Some of them are crying, not bawling just weeping gently but still steadfast; others are just pumped to the max, bouncing their heads up and down like they're listening to trance music, just amped about getting the rounds down. Those are the ones I'm most worried about; how they're going to cope with being back home is beyond me. Tom Chamberlain was destined to be a soldier from the moment he discovered a faded picture of his father patrolling the streets of Belfast. With the war in Afghanistan at its savage peak, Tom is despatched from home in the dead of an anonymous September night, a blood tribute leaving without fanfare. Full of eagerness, but wracked by self-doubt, he must discover who he is and what he is capable of. But as the bonds with his comrades grow, home - and the loved ones left behind - seem ever more remote from the surreal violence and exhilaration of war. Drawing on the author's own experience, Rain is the most powerful, vivid and affecting portrait of the Afghan frontline to have yet emerged - a novel of war that will take its place among the classics from previous generations. 'Rain is not merely good, it's remarkable. Powerful, at times unbearably harrowing, it captures both the fear and exhilaration of men pushed to breaking point' Jeremy Paxman 'Gripping . . . the ending is genuinely shocking' Daily Mail 'A powerful and moving story of war with all the authenticity of a memoir' Charles Cumming 'One of the most powerful and emotional works ever written about British soldiers in battle. Troubling, funny, upsetting, exhilarating and deeply moving. You will never forget it' Colonel Richard Kemp 'Thrilling, gut-wrenching and profoundly moving, this book, like all the very best novels of war, has the utterly compelling grip of authenticity' James Holland 'An extraordinary book: authentic, beautifully written and very moving' Saul David 'Simply superb. It could become the defining account of the British in Afghanistan' Tom Petch, writer and directer of 'The Patrol' 'One of the best novels about the Afghanistan war . Brutally honest, it could have been a memoir' David Axe 'A must-read debut' Tom Newton-Dunn

Jihad & Co.

Author : Aisha Ahmad
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190656786
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Jihad & Co. written by Aisha Ahmad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two decades, militant jihadism has been one of the world's most pressing security crises. In civil wars and insurgencies across the Muslim world, certain Islamist groups have taken advantage of the anarchy to establish political control over a broad range of territories and communities. In effect, they have built radical new jihadist proto-states. Why have some ideologically-inspired Islamists been able to build state-like polities out of civil war stalemate, while many other armed groups have failed to gain similar traction? What makes jihadists win? In Jihad & Co., Aisha Ahmad argues that there are concrete economic reasons behind Islamist success. By tracking the economic activities of jihadist groups in Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan, Mali, and Iraq, she uncovers an unlikely actor in bringing Islamist groups to power: the local business community. To illuminate the nexus between business and Islamist interests in civil war, Ahmad journeys into war-torn bazaars to meet with both jihadists and the smugglers who financed their rise to power. From the arms markets in the Pakistani border region to the street markets of Mogadishu, their stories reveal a powerful economic logic behind the rise of Islamist power in civil wars. Behind the fiery rhetoric and impassioned, ideological claims is the cold, hard cash of the local war economy. Moving readers back and forth between mosques, marketplaces, and battlefields, Ahmad makes a powerful argument that economic savvy, as much as ideological fervor, explains the rise of militant jihadism across the modern Muslim world.

Drugs, Oil, and War

Author : Peter Dale Scott
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742525221
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Drugs, Oil, and War written by Peter Dale Scott and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Dale Scott's brilliantly researched tour de force illuminates the underlying forces that drive U.S. global policy from Vietnam to Colombia and now to Afghanistan and Iraq. He brings to light the intertwined patterns of drugs, oil politics, and intelligence networks that have been so central to the larger workings of U.S. intervention and escalation in Third World countries through alliances with drug-trafficking proxies. This strategy was originally developed in the late 1940s to contain communist China; it has since been used to secure control over foreign petroleum resources. The result has been a staggering increase in the global drug traffic and the mafias associated with it--a problem that will worsen until there is a change in policy. Scott argues that covert operations almost always outlast the specific purpose for which they were designed. Instead, they grow and become part of a hostile constellation of forces. The author terms this phenomenon parapolitics--the exercise of power by covert means--which tends to metastasize into deep politics--the interplay of unacknowledged forces that spin out of the control of the original policy initiators. We must recognize that U.S. influence is grounded not just in military and economic superiority, Scott contends, but also in so-called soft power. We need a "soft politics" of persuasion and nonviolence, especially as America is embroiled in yet another disastrous intervention, this time in Iraq.

Modern Afghanistan

Author : M. Nazif Shahrani
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253030269
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Modern Afghanistan written by M. Nazif Shahrani and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : the impact of four decades of war and violence on afghan society and political culture / Nazif Shahrani -- Technologies of power-competing discourses on national identity, statehood, and state stability -- Afghanistan : a turbulent state in transition / Amin Saikal -- Afghanistan's "traditional" Islam in transition : the deep roots of Taliban extremism / Bashir Ahmad Ansari -- Language, poetry, and identity in Afghanistan : poetic texts, changing contexts / Mohammad Omar Sharifi -- Lineages of the urban state : locating continuity and change in post-2001 Kabul / Khalid Homayun Nadiri and M. Farshid Alemi Hakimyar -- Webs and spiders : four decades of violence, intervention, and statehood in Afghanistan (1978-2016) / Timor Sharan -- Merchant-warlords : changing forms of leadership in Afghanistan's unstable political economy / Noah Coburn -- Borders, access to strategic resources, and challenges to state stability / Ahmad Shayeq Qassem -- Brought to you by foreigners, warlords, and local activists : TV and the Afghan culture wars / Wazhmah Osman -- Personal and collective identities, gender relations, and the trust deficit -- "The war destroyed our society" : masculinity, violence, and shifting cultural idioms among Afghan Pashtun / Andrea Chiovenda -- Engendering the Taliban / Sonia Ahsan -- Anticipating discontinuous change : Afghanistan in retrospect and prospect / Robert L. Canfield and Fahim Masoud -- Adapting to a new political ecology of uncertainties at the margins -- Badakhshanis since the Saur revolution : struggle, triumph, hope, and uncertainty / M. Nazif Shahrani -- Hazara civil society activists and local, national, and international political institutions / Melissa Kerr Chiovenda -- Adapting to three decades of uncertainty : the flexibility of social institutions among Baloch groups in Afghanistan / Just Boedeker -- Party institutionalization meets women's empowerment? Acquiring power and influence in Afghanistan / Ann Larson -- Violence, social services delivery, and the rising trust deficit -- Childbirth and social change in Afghanistan / Kylea Laina Liese -- Signatures of distrust in contemporary Afghanistan : more than a decade of development effort for vulnerable groups : the case of disability / Parul Bakhshi and Jean-Francois Trani

War in Afghanistan

Author : Mark Urban
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349207616
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book War in Afghanistan written by Mark Urban and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This description of the military struggle for Afghanistan concerns the objectives, operations, tactics and effectiveness of the forces involved in that struggle. The aim is to describe the war as objectively and in as much detail as possible.

The Independent

Author : Leonard Bacon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Independent and Weekly Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Independent and Weekly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: