Afghanistan


The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
And the Mountains Echoed
The Bookseller of Kabul
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
The Places in Between
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
The Patience Stone
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics)
I have the impression that our children are much more excited about going to school than children in other countries are. They think of it as a special privilege. Going to school, being with other children, getting books and pencils - all of that is like a dream for them.
Cheryl Benard quoting Shahla Asad, Veiled Courage: Inside the Afghan Women's Resistance

Christopher Hitchens
Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and I had disagreed on the "roots" of September 11. I rush to agree. Here is what he told his audience at MIT on October 11:
I'll talk about the situation in Afghanistan.... Looks like what's happening is some sort of silent genocide.... It indicates that whatever, what will happen we don't know, but plans are being made and programs implemented on the assumption that
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