Making Friends Among Taliban Audio Dl

Author : Jonathan Larson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0836196872

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Making Friends Among Taliban (Audio DL) by Jonathan Larson Pdf

In a remote valley north of Kabul in August 2010, American peacemaker Dan Terry and nine other aid workers were attacked and killed in an event that made worldwide headlines. Why would one man take his family, follow faith and calling into the political and religious maelstrom of Afghanistan, and--through years of war and strife--believe he could make a difference? Making Friends Book Trailer In Making Friends among the Taliban, childhood friend Jonathan Larson retraces Dan's nearly forty years in Afghanistan and, through interviews and eye witness accounts, relays Dan's incredible way of daily living. Facing famine, poverty, prison, and rifle muzzles--and across three decades of kings, the Red Army, warlords, the Taliban, and the American-led coalition--Dan found improbable friendships across the front lines of conflict and inspired small Afghan communities to find a better way of life. This inspirational narrative of Dan's life and friendships offers a model for living authentically wherever we are. Sample the audiobook Read a sample chapter here. Click here for a free study guide. Jonathan Larson and others share more captivating stories from Dan Terry's life, in the complementary documentary, Weaving Life: The Life and Death of Peacemaker Dan Terry, available here.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Middle East
ISBN : IND:30000071006310

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The Middle East, Abstracts and Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Deborah Ellis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0192752847

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The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis Pdf

Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest.

Author : Carmen Gentile
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781510729704

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Blindsided by the Taliban by Carmen Gentile Pdf

I turn to see a rocket-propelled grenade screaming toward me. The ordinance strikes me in the side of the head, instantly blinding me in one eye and crushing the right side of my face. On September 9, 2010, while embedded with an Army unit and talking with locals in a small village in eastern Afghanistan, journalist Carmen Gentile was struck in the face by a rocket propelled grenade. Inexplicably, the grenade did not explode and Gentile survived, albeit with the right side of his face shattered and blinded in one eye. Making matters worse, his engagement was on the ropes and his fiancée absent from his bedside. Blindsided by the Taliban chronicles the author’s numerous missteps and shortcomings while coming to terms with injury and a lost love. Inventive and unprecedented surgeries would ultimately save Gentile’s face and eyesight, but the depression and trauma that followed his physical and emotional injuries proved a much harder recovery. Ultimately, Gentile would find that returning to the front lines and continuing the work he loved was the only way to become whole again. As only he can, Gentile recounts the physical and mental recovery which included staring only at the ground for a month, a battle with opiate-induced constipation and a history of drug addiction, attacks by Taliban assassins born of post-traumatic stress, the Jedi-like powers of General David Petraeus, and finding normalcy under falling mortars in an Afghan valley. The result is an unapologetic, self-deprecating, occasionally cringe-worthy, and always candid account of loss and redemption in the face of the self-doubt common to us all. Blindsided by the Taliban also features the author’s photos from the field that depict the realities of life in Afghanistan for soldiers and civilians alike. #KissedbytheTaliban

Author : Khaled Hosseini
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780747585893

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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Pdf

A riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love

Author : John Baily
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781315466927

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War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan by John Baily Pdf

In the 1970s John Baily conducted extensive ethnomusicological research in Afghanistan, principally in the city of Herat but also in Kabul. Then, with Taraki’s coup in 1978, came conflict, war, and the dispersal of many musicians to locations far and wide. This new publication is the culmination of Baily’s further research on Afghan music over the 35 years that followed. This took him to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, the USA, Australia and parts of Europe - London, Hamburg and Dublin. Arranged chronologically, the narrative traces the sequence of political events - from 1978, through the Soviet invasion, to the coming of the Taliban and, finally, the aftermath of the US-led invasion in 2001. He examines the effects of the ever-changing situation on the lives and works of Afghan musicians, following individual musicians in fascinating detail. At the heart of his analysis are privileged vignettes of ten musical personalities - some of friends, and some newly discovered. The result is a remarkable personal memoir by an eminent ethnomusicologist known for his deep commitment to Afghanistan, Afghan musicians and Afghan musical culture. John Baily is also an ethnographic filmmaker. Four of his films relating to his research are included on the downloadable resources that accompanies the text.

Author : Said Hyder Akbar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781596919976

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Come Back to Afghanistan by Said Hyder Akbar Pdf

In what began as two episodes of NPR's This American Life, Akbar recounts his pilgrimage to his home country with precocious wisdom and insight, taking readers from palaces to prisons and from Kabul to the borderlands in a revealing portrait of a country in the midst of a historic transition. A Top 10 ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2005 "Honest and precociously articulate, Akbar, now 20, filters complex Afghan traditions and history through a pop-culture lens."-Entertainment Weekly "There's no shortage of realistic detail. This is a book that leaves dust in your hair and blows sand into your teeth."-San Francisco Chronicle "Raw, honest and unnerving, the book is a grim reminder of Afghanistan's ongoing political struggles."-USA Today Said Hyder Akbar is currently a junior at Yale University in New Haven, CT. He is also codirector and founder of his own nongovernmental organization, Wadan Afghanistan, which has rebuilt schools and constructed pipe systems in rural Kunar province. Susan Burton is a contributing editor of This American Life and a former editor at Harper's. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine. Also available: HC ISBN 1-58234-520-1 ISBN-13 978-1-58234-520-8 $24.95

Author : Rory Stewart
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : British
ISBN : 9780151012350

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The Prince of the Marshes by Rory Stewart Pdf

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Author : Matt Farwell,Michael Ames
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780735221055

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American Cipher by Matt Farwell,Michael Ames Pdf

The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served as a symbol for America's foundering war in Afghanistan ”An unsettling and riveting book filled with the mysteries of human nature.” —Kirkus Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl left his platoon's base in eastern Afghanistan in the early hours of June 30, 2009. Since that day, easy answers to the many questions surrounding his case—why did he leave his post? What kinds of efforts were made to recover him from the Taliban? And why, facing a court martial, did he plead guilty to the serious charges against him?—have proved elusive. Taut in its pacing but sweeping in its scope, American Cipher is the riveting and deeply sourced account of the nearly decade-old Bergdahl quagmire—which, as journalists Matt Farwell and Michael Ames persuasively argue, is as illuminating an episode as we have as we seek the larger truths of how the United States lost its way in Afghanistan. The book tells the parallel stories of a young man's halting coming of age and a nation stalled in an unwinnable war, revealing the fallout that ensued when the two collided: a fumbling recovery effort that suppressed intelligence on Bergdahl's true location and bungled multiple opportunities to bring him back sooner; a homecoming that served to deepen the nation's already-vast political fissure; a trial that cast judgment on not only the defendant, but most everyone involved. The book's beating heart is Bergdahl himself—an idealistic, misguided soldier onto whom a nation projected the political and emotional complications of service. Based on years of exclusive reporting drawing on dozens of sources throughout the military, government, and Bergdahl's family, friends, and fellow soldiers, American Cipher is at once a meticulous investigation of government dysfunction and political posturing, a blistering commentary on America's presence in Afghanistan, and a heartbreaking story of a naïve young man who thought he could fix the world and wound up the tool of forces far beyond his understanding.

Author : Latifa,Chékéba Hachemi
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1860499619

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My Forbidden Face by Latifa,Chékéba Hachemi Pdf

In a moving tale of oppression and courageous defiance, sixteen-year-old Latifa tells her story of growing up in war torn Afghanistan.

Author : Kim Barker
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385533324

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The Taliban Shuffle by Kim Barker Pdf

A true-life Catch-22 set in the deeply dysfunctional countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan, by one of the region’s longest-serving correspondents. Kim Barker is not your typical, impassive foreign correspondent—she is candid, self-deprecating, laugh-out-loud funny. At first an awkward newbie in Afghanistan, she grows into a wisecracking, seasoned reporter with grave concerns about our ability to win hearts and minds in the region. In The Taliban Shuffle, Barker offers an insider’s account of the “forgotten war” in Afghanistan and Pakistan, chronicling the years after America’s initial routing of the Taliban, when we failed to finish the job. When Barker arrives in Kabul, foreign aid is at a record low, electricity is a pipe dream, and of the few remaining foreign troops, some aren’t allowed out after dark. Meanwhile, in the vacuum left by the U.S. and NATO, the Taliban is regrouping as the Afghan and Pakistani governments floun­der. Barker watches Afghan police recruits make a travesty of practice drills and observes the disorienting turnover of diplomatic staff. She is pursued romantically by the former prime minister of Pakistan and sees adrenaline-fueled col­leagues disappear into the clutches of the Taliban. And as her love for these hapless countries grows, her hopes for their stability and security fade. Swift, funny, and wholly original, The Taliban Shuffle unforgettably captures the absurdities and tragedies of life in a war zone.

Author : Khaled Hosseini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Afghanistan
ISBN : 1594483175

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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Pdf

Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.

Author : Abdul Salam Zaeef
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849044448

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My Life with the Taliban by Abdul Salam Zaeef Pdf

This is the autobiography of Abdul Salam Zaeef, a senior former member of the Taliban. His memoirs, translated from Pashto, are more than just a personal account of his extraordinary life. My Life with the Taliban offers a counter-narrative to the standard accounts of Afghanistan since 1979. Zaeef describes growing up in rural poverty in Kandahar province. Both of his parents died at an early age, and the Russian invasion of 1979 forced him to flee to Pakistan. He started fighting the jihad in 1983, during which time he was associated with many major figures in the anti-Soviet resistance, including the current Taliban head Mullah Mohammad Omar. After the war Zaeef returned to a quiet life in a small village in Kandahar, but chaos soon overwhelmed Afghanistan as factional fighting erupted after the Russians pulled out. Disgusted by the lawlessness that ensued, Zaeef was one among the former mujahidin who were closely involved in the discussions that led to the emergence of the Taliban, in 1994. Zaeef then details his Taliban career as civil servant and minister who negotiated with foreign oil companies as well as with Afghanistan's own resistance leader, Ahmed Shah Massoud. Zaeef was ambassador to Pakistan at the time of the 9/11 attacks, and his account discusses the strange "phoney war" period before the US-led intervention toppled the Taliban. In early 2002 Zaeef was handed over to American forces in Pakistan, notwithstanding his diplomatic status, and spent four and a half years in prison (including several years in Guantanamo) before being released without having been tried or charged with any offence. My Life with the Taliban offers a personal and privileged insight into the rural Pashtun village communities that are the Taliban's bedrock. It helps to explain what drives men like Zaeef to take up arms against the foreigners who are foolish enough to invade his homeland.

Author : Oleg Kagan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578712008

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Injured to Elite by Oleg Kagan Pdf

Ever wonder what it takes to guide your journey to elite performance after a physical challenge? Instead of relying on hand-holding by costly medical or performance professionals, Dr. David Meyer PT, DPT wrote Injured to Elite to save you time, money, agony, and most importantly, to empower you to utilize a seemingly negative physical challenge as a massive opportunity to retrain your mind, body, and spirit to achieve your fullest potential both on and off the field. Working from the belief that you can learn what he has by simply taking the time to understand it, Dr. Meyer PT, DPT offers you his extensive academic training and experience working in Major League Baseball in an approachable handbook that takes you through recovery and beyond. No more wading through bogus internet searches, and over-paying for misleading trainers - this book teaches you how to become your own professional performance guide. Ryan Sherriff has gone from Injured to Elite in the Major Leagues: "Dave was with me before the big leagues during my worst times in the Minor Leagues, and was a big part of my journey getting through my injuries and to the show." -MLB LHP Ryan Sherriff, Tampa Bay Rays. In this sometimes short-sighted and superficial world, whether you play a professional sport on the big screen, or jog around the block before work in the morning, everyone requires a higher purpose. Dr. David Meyer is a Sports Performance Physical Therapist that graduated with his Doctorate in Physical Therapy from New York University. After completing an advanced sports residency training program at the world-renowned Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, he served as the Medical and Rehabilitation Coordinator for the St. Louis Cardinals for three years from 2015 through the 2017 season. While now serving as an advocate for athletes going through adversity and working towards advanced credentials with the Association of Applied Sports Psychology, as a Certified Mental Performance Consultant, his mission has become to "Empower those facing physical challenges to transform their lives through an optimal state of body, mind, and spirit." Find Injured to Elite in paperback, ebook, and audiobook on Amazon along with the accompanying digital Masterclass found at www.injuredtoelite.com #INJUREDTOELITE #I2E

Author : Jake Tapper
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 789 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780316215855

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The Outpost by Jake Tapper Pdf

The basis of the film starring Orlando Bloom and Scott Eastwood, The Outpost is the heartbreaking and inspiring story of one of America's deadliest battles during the war in Afghanistan, acclaimed by critics everywhere as a classic. At 5:58 AM on October 3rd, 2009, Combat Outpost Keating, located in frighteningly vulnerable terrain in Afghanistan just 14 miles from the Pakistani border, was viciously attacked. Though the 53 Americans there prevailed against nearly 400 Taliban fighters, their casualties made it the deadliest fight of the war for the U.S. that year. Four months after the battle, a Pentagon review revealed that there was no reason for the troops at Keating to have been there in the first place. In The Outpost, Jake Tapper gives us the powerful saga of COP Keating, from its establishment to eventual destruction, introducing us to an unforgettable cast of soldiers and their families, and to a place and war that has remained profoundly distant to most Americans. A runaway bestseller, it makes a savage war real, and American courage manifest. "The Outpost is a mind-boggling, all-too-true story of heroism, hubris, failed strategy, and heartbreaking sacrifice. If you want to understand how the war in Afghanistan went off the rails, you need to read this book." -- Jon Krakauer