Searching for Saleem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Searching for Saleem write by Farooka Gauhari. This book was released on 1996-01-01. Searching for Saleem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
An Afghan Woman's Odyssey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Afghan Woman's Odyssey write by Farooka Gauhari. This book was released on 2004-11-01. An Afghan Woman's Odyssey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan
Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan write by Ludwig W. Adamec. This book was released on 2012. Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan write by Thomas H. Johnson. This book was released on 2021-05-15. Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
In Afghanistan
In Afghanistan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Afghanistan write by Jere Van Dyk. This book was released on 2002. In Afghanistan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
