Author : Suzy Parish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 152230116X
Flowers from Afghanistan
Suzy Parish
Flowers From Afghanistan
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A Bed of Red Flowers
Nelofer Pazira
Author : Nelofer Pazira
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Afghanistan
ISBN : OCLC:1147725468
A Bed of Red Flowers by Nelofer Pazira Pdf
A Bed of Red Flowers
Nelofer Pazira
Author : Nelofer Pazira
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743290005
A Bed of Red Flowers by Nelofer Pazira Pdf
Written with compassion, intelligence and insight, A Bed of Red Flowers is a profoundly moving portrait of life under occupation and the unforgettable story of a family, a people and a country. "The picnic of the red flower" is a traditional time of celebration for Afghans. One of Nelofer Pazira's earliest memories is of people gathering in the countryside to admire the tulips and poppies carpeting the landscape. It is the mid-1970s, and her parents are building a future for themselves and their young children in the city of Kabul. But when Nelofer is just five the Communists take power and her father, a respected doctor, is imprisoned along with thousands of other Afghans. The following year, the Russians invade Afghanistan, which becomes a police state and the center of a bloody conflict between the Soviet army and American-backed mujahidin fighters. A climate of violence and fear reigns. For Nelofer, there is no choice but to grow up fast. At eleven, she and her friends throw stones at the Russian tanks that stir up dust and animosity in the streets of Kabul. As a teenager she joins a resistance group, hiding her gun from her parents. Her emotional refuge is her friendship with her classmate Dyana, with whom she shares a passion for poetry, dreams and a better life. After a decade of war, Nelofer's family escapes across the mountains to Pakistan and later to Canada, where she continues to write to Dyana. When her friend suddenly stops writing, Nelofer fears for Dyana's life. With lyrical, narrative prose, A Bed of Red Flowers movingly tells Pazira's haunting story, as well as Afghanistan's story as a nation.
Soldiers' Flowers: Artists in Afghanistan
L. G. Hoare
Author : L. G. Hoare
Publisher : Third Millennium Information
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1906507996
Soldiers' Flowers: Artists in Afghanistan by L. G. Hoare Pdf
"... a splendidly evocative album of Afghan memories." The Guards Magazine, Autumn 2012Soldiers' Flowers: Artists in Afghanistan is a rich gallery of artworks ranging from the polished to the frankly no more than spontaneous, but all selected for immediacy and sense of engagement. Much of the work presented here may be the very first attempt by the individual concerned to express his or her impressions of the country and its people as well as, inevitably, the routines of Army life. The picture that emerges is far removed from the footage of the 24-hour news machine, and reminds us that in a world beyond the headlines, British forces are supporting ordinary men, women and children in making the best of their lives.
Flowers from Afghanistan
Suzy Parish
Author : Suzy Parish
Publisher : Pelican Ventures Book Group
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781522300427
Flowers from Afghanistan by Suzy Parish Pdf
Weighed down by guilt following the death of his two-year-old son, Mac McCann accepts a year-long position training police officers in Afghanistan. Leaving his wife Sophie to grieve alone, he hopes the life-or-death distractions of his self-imposed exile will build a wall between him and his pain. As camaraderie builds between Mac and the men on base—including a local barber and his precocious little boy—Mac's heart becomes invested in stories beyond his own tragedy and he learns he is not the only one running from loss. But when the hour of attack arrives, will he be able to see past his guilt to believe there's still something—and someone—worth living for? With touching details based on true events, Flowers from Afghanistan is a redemptive journey of healing, a chronicle of hope in crisis, and a testament to the faithfulness of God through it all.
A Bed of Red Flowers
Nelofer Pazira
Author : Nelofer Pazira
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126861645
A Bed of Red Flowers by Nelofer Pazira Pdf
The star of the film Kandahar creates a moving memoir of life, childhood and friendship as her world collapses around her Nelofer Pazira was born into a privileged family living in Kabul. When she was six, the Russians invaded Afghanistan and her childhood ended. Her father, a respected doctor, was imprisoned along with family and friends. Their country became a police state and the centre of a bloody conflict between the Soviet army and the American-backed guerillas. Amid the blood and fear of war, Nelofer’s refuge from violence and anger was her friendship with Dyana. Together they shared their lives, their passion for poetry and the dangers of underground resistance. After a decade of war, Nelofer’s family escaped across the mountains to Pakistan and from there to Canada, where she continued her friendship with Dyana through letters. When her friend suddenly stopped writing, Nelofer felt bereft. Her return to Afghanistan under the Taliban and her desperate search for Dyana became the story of the internationally acclaimed film Kandahar. Her journey to discover Dyana’s tragedy led her finally to Russia, to the country that destroyed her life, where she found a nation imprisoned by its own history. Nuanced, affecting and stunningly written, A Bed of Red Flowers is a gripping portrait of ordinary life under occupation and an illuminating window onto the devastation of a country and the resilience of its people. For fear that the Communist government might find evidence that could be used against my father, my mother decides to burn everything. In utter anguish she sits on the floor in front of the stove. The tiny door of the chimney is open, and my mother relentlessly feeds the beast of fire my father’s books, albums and papers. Book burning is a quiet ritual. The only sound is of the papers crackling and of my mother’s sighs. The cherry-red glow of the fire highlights the lines of tiredness beneath my mother’s eyes. I’ve never seen her so exhausted or lost. When she opens the door, the flames run like red water over the white pages, darkening their words.When we are done, we wash our chimney-hot faces as if what we had been doing were an ordinary household chore. —excerpt from A Bed of Red Flowers From the Hardcover edition.
Losing Afghanistan
Noah Coburn
Author : Noah Coburn
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804797801
Losing Afghanistan by Noah Coburn Pdf
A 2016 study of the Afghanistan international intervention from perspective of an ambassador, a Navy SEAL, an Afghan businessman & a wind energy engineer. The US-led intervention in Afghanistan mobilized troops, funds, and people on an international level not seen since World War II. Hundreds of thousands of individuals and tens of billions of dollars flowed into the country. But what was gained for Afghanistan—or for the international community that footed the bill? Why did development money not lead to more development? Why did a military presence make things more dangerous? Through the stories of four individuals—an ambassador, a Navy SEAL, a young Afghan businessman, and a wind energy engineer—Noah Coburn weaves a vivid account of the challenges and contradictions of life during the intervention. Looking particularly at the communities around Bagram Airbase, this ethnography considers how Afghans viewed and attempted to use the intervention and how those at the base tried to understand the communities around them. These compelling stories step outside the tired paradigms of ‘unruly’ Afghan tribes, an effective Taliban resistance, and a corrupt Karzai government to show how the intervention became an entity unto itself, one doomed to collapse under the weight of its own bureaucracy and contradictory intentions. Praise for Losing Afghanistan “Coburn’s experienced eye demonstrates that understanding local culture is a two-way street. Highly recommended for Afghans, or anyone puzzled by the policies of international military and civilian institutions and in need of practical advice on how to cope with their strange ways of thinking.” —Thomas Barfield, Boston University “Rich in description and thick with ironies, Losing Afghanistan reveals the insanities of a war run by and for contractors, and by soldiers posing as development agents. In this first-hand account of war-time Afghanistan, Coburn navigates the various and sometimes shared assumptions of walled off foreigners and the world they created in which Afghans play but minor parts. A quiet indictment.” —Catherine Lutz, Brown University “Losing Afghanistan provides a unique window into the longest, most costly US and international intervention since the Second World War. Having spent over a decade researching and writing about Afghanistan, living with ordinary Afghans, and a bewildering array of international actors, Coburn illuminates the chasm between what ordinary Afghans think and want, and what international actors assume and do, and the frustration and disillusionment that resulted.” —Michael Keating, Associate Director, Chatham House, and Former UN Deputy Envoy to Afghanistan, Kabul
War Gardens
Lalage Snow
Author : Lalage Snow
Publisher : Quercus Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781787470705
War Gardens by Lalage Snow Pdf
'A remarkable book . . . It's a powerful testament to the healing balm of gardening and the resilience of the human spirit in the direst of circumstances.' Financial Times 'Not a happy book and yet it's magically heartening. It makes a gardener question his or her values.' The Times 'This extraordinary book...warm and engaging...like a photograph magicked to life.' Spectator 'Snow has spent ten years as a photographer and filmmaker covering unrest . . . Throughout that time she has sought comfort in green oases and come to understand "how vital gardens are 'against a horrid wilderness' of war". . . There can be few counter-narratives as enchanting and sad as those Snow recounts in War Gardens.' Times Literary Supplement 'For all these victims of war, their gardens are places in which to breathe, providing moments of calm, hope and optimism in a fragile life of horror and uncertainty. For many, it helps them to grieve. Books seldom bring a lump to my throat, but this one did.' Spectator 'What makes War Gardens the most illuminating garden book to be published this year, is the realisation that people's gardens are the antidotes to the horrors of their surroundings.' Country Life A journey through the most unlikely of gardens: the oases of peace people create in the midst of war In this millennium, we have become war weary. From Afghanistan to Iraq, from Ukraine to South Sudan and Syria, from Kashmir to the West Bank, conflict is as contagious and poisonous as Japanese knotweed. Living through it are people just like us with ordinary jobs, ordinary pressures and ordinary lives. Against a new landscape of horror and violence it is up to them to maintain a modicum of normality and colour. For some, gardening is the way to achieve this. Working in the world's most dangerous war zones, freelance war correspondent and photographer Lally Snow has often chanced across a very moving sight, a testimony to the triumph of the human spirit in adversity, a celebration of hope and beauty: a war garden. In Kabul, the royal gardens are tended by a centenarian gardener, though the king is long gone; in Camp Bastion, bored soldiers improvise tiny gardens to give themselves a moment's peace; on both sides of the dividing line in Jerusalem families tend groves of olives and raise beautiful plants from the unforgiving, disputed landscape; in Ukraine, families tend their gardens in the middle of a surreal, frozen war. War Gardens is a surprising, tragic and beautiful journey through the darkest places of the modern world, revealing the ways people make time and space for themselves and for nature even in the middle of destruction. Illustrated with Lally Snow's own award-winning photography, this is a book to treasure.
This Raging Flower
Lynn Erickson,Paradise Press, Incorporated
Author : Lynn Erickson,Paradise Press, Incorporated
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Afghanistan
ISBN : 1576574113
This Raging Flower by Lynn Erickson,Paradise Press, Incorporated Pdf
My Afghanistan
Ms. DeLaila Abedi
Author : Ms. DeLaila Abedi
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781669816102
My Afghanistan by Ms. DeLaila Abedi Pdf
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Afghanistan
John L. Cook
Author : John L. Cook
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479720705
Afghanistan by John L. Cook Pdf
LONG BOOK DESCRIPTION: Unparalleled access to all levels of the Afghan government and coalition forces is the result of John Cook's tenure in Afghanistan. Over the past four and a half years, he has developed an intimate and alarming insight into what has become a hand-wringing quagmire of politically correct, socially and culturally sensitive policies and programs that continue to be implemented, and that can only result in catastrophic failure for the United States, the coalition and the average Afghan. Mr. Cook offers unprecedented insight as he digs deep to rip away at the misguided and destructive policies, including the infamous "Rules of Engagement" that doom our soldiers for the sake of political correctness and cultural sensitivity. This raw and disturbing account covers the truths regarding the appalling and cruel treatment of women, the squandering of foreign aid by, and corruption of, the "Karzai-centric" government that includes the betrayal of its own people. He presents eye-opening insight into the tribal structure that has traditionally guided the Afghan mindset and, despite efforts to "westernize", will not go away. He details the inexplicable and infuriating policies regarding failures associated with poppy eradication, and it is the poppies that are the fuel for terrorist activities. He further provides explanations for the Taliban's continuing control and the problems associated with our "well-intentioned" but misguided counterinsurgency strategies against the Taliban and al Qaeda - strategies that fail our mission and our soldiers. In this reasoned, forceful and intellectually honest treatise, he also courageously dissects the disturbing role of Islam and forces the reader to come face to face with the reality that Islam, not the Taliban, is the real enemy in Afghanistan. After reading Afghanistan: The Perfect Failure, we can only conclude we must no longer turn a blind eye to what is happening in Afghanistan. Mr. Cook's dissection is powerful and provocative. The American public deserves more than the thin veil of reporting that has been done on the subjects in this expose. Due to his longevity in this war torn country and high- level access, few, if any, have had the opportunity to gain the inside and knowledge afforded John Cook; none have had the courage to publicly reveal the shameful truth.
Middle East Garden Traditions
Michel Conan,Dumbarton Oaks
Author : Michel Conan,Dumbarton Oaks
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 088402329X
Middle East Garden Traditions by Michel Conan,Dumbarton Oaks Pdf
This book unites new information and surprising results from the last fifteen years of garden research, at a remove from the clichés of Orientalism. Garden archaeology reveals the economic importance of Judean gardens in Roman times and the visual complexity of gardens created and transformed in Moorish Spain. More contemporary approaches unravel the cultural continuities, variations, and differences between gardens in the Middle East since Roman times and in the Islamic world.
Afghanistan
Louis Dupree
Author : Louis Dupree
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 803 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400858910
Afghanistan by Louis Dupree Pdf
The ancient land and the modern nation of Afghanistan are the subject of Louis Dupree's book. Both in the text and in over a hundred illustrations, he identifies the major patterns of Afghan history, society, and culture as they have developed from the Stone Age to the present. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
NATO in Afghanistan
Sten Rynning
Author : Sten Rynning
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804784948
NATO in Afghanistan by Sten Rynning Pdf
The war in Afghanistan has run for more than a decade, and NATO has become increasingly central to it. In this book, Sten Rynning examines NATO's role in the campaign and the difficult diplomacy involved in fighting a war by alliance. He explores the history of the war and its changing momentum, and explains how NATO at first faltered but then improved its operations to become a critical enabler for the U.S. surge of 2009. However, he also uncovers a serious and enduring problem for NATO in the shape of a disconnect between high liberal hopes for the new Afghanistan and a lack of realism about the military campaign prosecuted to bring it about. He concludes that, while NATO has made it to the point in Afghanistan where the war no longer has the potential to break it, the alliance is, at the same time, losing its own struggle to define itself as a vigorous and relevant entity on the world stage. To move forward, he argues, NATO allies must recover their common purpose as a Western alliance, and he outlines options for change.
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India)
Author : Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1190 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015008280060