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A Fort of Nine Towers

Author	: Qais Akbar Omar
Publisher	: Macmillan
Release Date	: 2014-04-08
ISBN 10	: 9781250043658
Pages	: 413 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (436 users)

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Download or read book A Fort of Nine Towers written by Qais Akbar Omar and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir from a carpet designer in Kabul describes his childhood before the Mujahedin took over, being kidnapped, camping in caves and his employing neighborhood girls while teaching them literature and science in his secret shop under Taliban rule. 50,000 first printing.

A Fort of Nine Towers

Author	: Qais Akbar Omar
Publisher	: Pan Macmillan
Release Date	: 2013-05-09
ISBN 10	: 9781447221746
Pages	: 409 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (217 users)

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Download or read book A Fort of Nine Towers written by Qais Akbar Omar and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With all the emotional power of The Kite Runner, this is the very first true life account of growing up in Afghanistan, by a writer who still lives in Kabul. Qais Akbar Omar’s young life coincided with one of the most convulsive decades in Afghan history: civil war, the rise of the Taliban, and the arrival of international troops in 2001. A Fort of Nine Towers, named for the place his parents first sought shelter from war, is the story of Qais’s family and their remarkable survival. When the fighting came, this group of tenacious and deeply loving people was buffeted from one part of Afghanistan to the next, ‘like kittens in the jaws of a lion’. They set up camp on the plains, in the Buddha caves of Bamiyan, and later with Kuchi nomads, before they were finally able to return to Kabul – where in many senses their trials were just beginning. As he shares this long journey, through terror, loss, heartbreak, and sudden moments of joy, Qais’s spirit never ceases to shine. This is an extraordinary book about a beautiful and civilized country ravaged by war, and about the power of stories to embolden, console, and bind a family together, in the face of almost unimaginable odds.

A Fort of Nine Towers

Author	: Qais Akbar Omar
Publisher	: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date	: 2014-04-08
ISBN 10	: 9780374709181
Pages	: 416 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (91 users)

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Download or read book A Fort of Nine Towers written by Qais Akbar Omar and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the rare memoirs of Afghanistan to have been written by an Afghan, A Fort of Nine Towers reveals the richness and suffering of life in a country whose history has become deeply entwined with our own. For the young Qais Akbar Omar, Kabul was a city of gardens where he flew kites from his grandfather's roof with his cousin Wakeel while their parents, uncles, and aunts drank tea around a cloth spread in the grass. It was a time of telling stories, reciting poetry, selling carpets, and arranging marriages.Then civil war exploded. Their neighborhood found itself on the front line of a conflict that grew more savage by the day. With rockets falling around them, Omar's family fled, leaving behind everything they owned to take shelter in an old fort-only a few miles distant and yet a world away from the gunfire. As the violence escalated, Omar's father decided he must take his children out of the country to safety. On their perilous journey, they camped in caves behind the colossal Buddha statues in Bamyan, and took refuge with nomad cousins, herding their camels and sheep. While his father desperately sought smugglers to take them over the border, Omar grew up on the road, and met a deaf-mute carpet weaver who would show him his life's purpose. Later, as the Mujahedin war devolved into Taliban madness, Omar learned about quiet resistance. He survived a brutal and arbitrary imprisonment, and, at eighteen, opened a secret carpet factory to provide work for neighborhood girls, who were forbidden to go to school or even to leave their homes. As they tied knots at their looms, Omar's parents taught them literature and science. In this stunning coming-of-age memoir, Omar recounts terrifyingly narrow escapes and absurdist adventures, as well as moments of intense joy and beauty. In?ected with folktales, steeped in poetry, A Fort of Nine Towers is a life-affirming triumph. A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2013 A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2013

Zero-Sum Victory

Author	: Christopher D. Kolenda
Publisher	: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date	: 2021-10-26
ISBN 10	: 9780813152899
Pages	: 400 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (528 users)

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Download or read book Zero-Sum Victory written by Christopher D. Kolenda and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The military expert and author of Leadership presents “the most thoughtful analysis yet of America’s recent conflicts—and future challenges” (Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal). Why have the major post-9/11 US military interventions turned into quagmires? Despite huge power imbalances in America’s favor, capacity-building efforts, and tactical victories, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq turned intractable. The US government’s fixation on zero-sum, decisive victory in these conflicts is a key reason why these operations failed to achieve favorable and durable outcomes. In Zero-Sum Victory, retired US Army colonel Christopher D. Kolenda identifies three interrelated problems that have emerged from the government’s insistence on zero-sum victory. First, the US government has no way to measure successful outcomes other than a decisive military victory, and thus, selects strategies that overestimate the possibility of such an outcome. Second, the United States is slow to recognize, modify, or abandon losing strategies. Third, once the United States decides to withdraw, bargaining asymmetries and disconnects in strategy undermine the prospects for a successful transition or negotiated outcome. Relying on historic examples and personal experience, Kolenda draws thought-provoking and actionable conclusions about the utility of American military power in the contemporary world—insights that serve as a starting point for future scholarship as well as for important national security reforms.

Summary and Analysis of the Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe

Author	: Worth Books
Publisher	: Open Road Media
Release Date	: 2017-05-02
ISBN 10	: 9781504046381
Pages	: 30 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (463 users)

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Download or read book Summary and Analysis of the Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe written by Worth Books and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Dressmaker of Khair Khana tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Gayle Tzemach Lemmon’s book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe includes: Historical context Chapter-by-chapter overviews Profiles of the main characters Detailed timeline of key events Important quotes Fascinating trivia Glossary of terms Supporting material to enhance your understanding of the original work About The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: The Dressmaker of Khair Khana is the inspiring true story of Kamila Sidiqi, a young woman who received her teaching certificate the day the Taliban entered and occupied Kabul in 1990. With ingenuity, faith, and leadership, Kamila established a garment business in her living room—employing family members and neighbors—which enabled their survival in during one of the most tumultuous decades in the region. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon tells the uplifting story of the women who, with quiet heroism, not only survived Taliban rule, but supported and protected their families and fellow Afghans. The summary and analysis in this ebook are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.

Imagining Afghanistan

Author	: Alla Ivanchikova
Publisher	: Purdue University Press
Release Date	: 2019-09-15
ISBN 10	: 9781612495804
Pages	: 290 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (958 users)

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Download or read book Imagining Afghanistan written by Alla Ivanchikova and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining Afghanistan examines how Afghanistan has been imagined in literary and visual texts that were published after the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent U.S.-led invasion—the era that propelled Afghanistan into the center of global media visibility. Through an analysis of fiction, graphic novels, memoirs, drama, and film, the book demonstrates that writing and screening “Afghanistan” has become a conduit for understanding our shared post-9/11 condition. “Afghanistan” serves as a lens through which contemporary cultural producers contend with the moral ambiguities of twenty-first-century humanitarianism, interpret the legacy of the Cold War, debate the role of the U.S. in the rise of transnational terror, and grapple with the long-term impact of war on both human and nonhuman ecologies. Post-9/11 global Afghanistan literary production remains largely NATO-centric insofar as it is marked by an uncritical investment in humanitarianism as an approach to Third World suffering and in anti-communism as an unquestioned premise. The book’s first half exposes how persisting anti-socialist biases—including anti-statist bias—not only shaped recent literary and visual texts on Afghanistan, resulting in a distorted portrayal of its tragic history, but also informed these texts’ reception by critics. In the book’s second half, the author examines cultural texts that challenge this limited horizon and forge alternative ways of representing traumatic histories. Captured by the author through the concepts of deep time, nonhuman witness, and war as a multispecies ecology, these new aesthetics bring readers a sophisticated portrait of Afghanistan as a rich multispecies habitat affected in dramatic ways by decades of war but not annihilated.

Daily Life of U.S. Soldiers: From the American Revolution to the Iraq War [3 volumes]

Author	: Christopher R. Mortenson
Publisher	: ABC-CLIO
Release Date	: 2019-06-30
ISBN 10	: 9781440863592
Pages	: 1139 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (635 users)

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Download or read book Daily Life of U.S. Soldiers: From the American Revolution to the Iraq War [3 volumes] written by Christopher R. Mortenson and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 1139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking work explores the lives of average soldiers from the American Revolution through the 21st-century conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. • Provides readers with an understanding of the daily lives of soldiers in America's wars, greatly complementing more standard histories of battles and leaders • Offers a curated collection of primary sources for each conflict that illuminates the daily lives of US soldiers during wartime • Includes detailed bibliographies that offer many accessible sources needed by students and researchers looking to further explore the topics • Provides a comprehensive chronology for each conflict that helps readers to place it within the proper historical context • Spans nearly 250 years of national history from the American Revolution to the Afghanistan War

That Mad Game

Author	: Jessica Lynn Powers
Publisher	: Cinco Puntos Press
Release Date	: 2012
ISBN 10	: 9781935955221
Pages	: 233 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (552 users)

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Download or read book That Mad Game written by Jessica Lynn Powers and published by Cinco Puntos Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's it like to grow up during war? To be a victim of violence or exiled from your homeland, culture, family, and even your own memories? When America's talking heads talk about war, children and teenagers are often the forgotten part of the story. Yet who can forget images of the Vietnam "baby lift," when Amer-Asian children were flown out of Vietnam to be adopted by Americans? Who can forget the horror of learning that Iranian children were sent on suicide missions to clear landmines? Who wasn't captivated by stories of the "lost boys" of Sudan, traveling thousands of miles alone through the desert, seeking shelter and safety? From the cartel-terrorized streets of Juárez to the bombed-out cities of Bosnia to Afghanistan under the Taliban, from Nazi-occupied Holland to the middle-class American home of a Vietnam vet, this collection of personal and narrative essays explores both the universal and particular experiences of children and teenagers who came of age during a time of war. J.L. Powers is the editor of Labor Pains and Birth Stories and the author of two young adult novels, most recently This Thing Called the Future, an alternative fantasy set in post-apartheid South Africa. She began collecting essays on children and war while pregnant with her first child and says, "The experience was both painful and uplifting, not unlike giving birth. The most memorable aspect of these essays is their stark portrayal of both survival and hope in the midst of incredible suffering."

Afghanistan

Author	: Donald Newton Wilber
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1956
ISBN 10	: STANFORD:36105119356587
Pages	: 546 pages
Rating	: 4.O/5 (36 users)

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Download or read book Afghanistan written by Donald Newton Wilber and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shadow War

Author	: Louis Daniel Brodsky
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2001
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015052548156
Pages	: 96 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (55 users)

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111 Questions on Islam

Author	: Khalil Samir
Publisher	: Ignatius Press
Release Date	: 2008
ISBN 10	: 9781586171551
Pages	: 267 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (715 users)

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Download or read book 111 Questions on Islam written by Khalil Samir and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The terrorist attack on the Twin Towers, the Afghan conflict, waves of migration, and the presence of twelve million Muslims in the European Union: these are just a few of the things that have helped contribute to a growing interest in Islam, its culture, and its followers. They awaken old and new questions about a religious, cultural, and political reality that 1,200,000,000 people consider themselves a part of. This book is the result of a series of extended interviews between an internationally acclaimed expert on Islam and two journalists who have dedicated themselves for many years to studying key themes of Islam and analyzing the possibility of coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures. How was Islam born? What does the Qur'an represent for Muslims? What relationships have developed between Islam and violence, between Islamic culture and the West? How can a real integration of Islam take place in European societies? What are the conditions for a constructive encounter between Christians and Muslims? Samir Khalil Samir--one of the world's leading experts on Islam--responds to these questions in an in-depth interview that can help one learn and judge for oneself, without prejudice or naivete. This is a contribution in the spirit of the realism needed in order to build adequate ways of living with those who have become our new neighbors.

The Times Index

Author	:
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2013-05
ISBN 10	: UCD:31175037413476
Pages	: 172 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (53 users)

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Download or read book The Times Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indexes the Times, Sunday times and magazine, Times literary supplement, Times educational supplement, Time educational supplement Scotland, and the Times higher education supplement.

American Magic and Dread

Author	: Mark Osteen
Publisher	: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date	: 2000-06-19
ISBN 10	: 9780812235517
Pages	: 307 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (355 users)

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Download or read book American Magic and Dread written by Mark Osteen and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2000-06-19 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A strongly argued analysis and close reading of Delillo's works. . . . There is much here in the methodology and discussion of postmodern themes and techniques that will have relevance to American studies and cultural studies more widely."—Forum for Modern Language Studies

The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1882
ISBN 10	: OSU:32435028608529
Pages	: 996 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (52 users)

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1894
ISBN 10	: NYPL:33433082033592
Pages	: 914 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (33 users)

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Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112047793085 and Others

Author	:
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1879
ISBN 10	: UIUC:30112119741376
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (121 users)

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Cooling Towers

Author	: Gerald Bowen Hill
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1990
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015049120937
Pages	: 191 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (54 users)

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