Our Woman In Kabul

Author : Irris Makler
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781863253857

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Our Woman in Kabul by Irris Makler Pdf

One of the first journalists in Afghanistan after the Taliban fell, Irris Makler set out alone to cover a war and discovered an even more enduring story about women caught in the crossfire. Risking her life in a war zone was one thing, but finding herself in a man's world where women were virtually invisible opened a window onto another world. Surrounded by men, from the front line to the local bazaar, Makler had one major advantage over her male colleagues. While the hidden world of Afghan women was off limits to them, she broke through the wall of silence and uncovered a powerful force behind it- women willing to emerge from the shadows and take a role in their country's future. As one woman put it- 'Society is like a bird. It has two wings. And a bird cannot fly if one wing is broken'. Insightful, moving and often darkly funny, OUR WOMAN IN KABUL not only offers a vivid portrait of these remarkable women and a turning point in their country's history, but of life on the road with an intrepid female nomad whose curiosity almost always overcomes her fear.

Author : Deborah Rodriguez,Kristin Ohlson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781588366078

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Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez,Kristin Ohlson Pdf

Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills–as doctors, nurses, and therapists–seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother of two from Michigan, despaired of being of any real use. Yet she soon found she had a gift for befriending Afghans, and once her profession became known she was eagerly sought out by Westerners desperate for a good haircut and by Afghan women, who have a long and proud tradition of running their own beauty salons. Thus an idea was born. With the help of corporate and international sponsors, the Kabul Beauty School welcomed its first class in 2003. Well meaning but sometimes brazen, Rodriguez stumbled through language barriers, overstepped cultural customs, and constantly juggled the challenges of a postwar nation even as she learned how to empower her students to become their families’ breadwinners by learning the fundamentals of coloring techniques, haircutting, and makeup. Yet within the small haven of the beauty school, the line between teacher and student quickly blurred as these vibrant women shared with Rodriguez their stories and their hearts: the newlywed who faked her virginity on her wedding night, the twelve-year-old bride sold into marriage to pay her family’s debts, the Taliban member’s wife who pursued her training despite her husband’s constant beatings. Through these and other stories, Rodriguez found the strength to leave her own unhealthy marriage and allow herself to love again, Afghan style. With warmth and humor, Rodriguez details the lushness of a seemingly desolate region and reveals the magnificence behind the burqa. Kabul Beauty School is a remarkable tale of an extraordinary community of women who come together and learn the arts of perms, friendship, and freedom.

Author : Jenny Nordberg
Publisher : Crown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307952493

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The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg Pdf

An award-winning foreign correspondent who contributed to a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times series reveals the secret Afghan custom of disguising girls as boys to improve their prospects, discussing its political and social significance as well as the experiences of its practitioners.

Author : Anne E. Brodsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135951948

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With All Our Strength by Anne E. Brodsky Pdf

With All Our Strength is the inside story of this women-led underground organization and their fight for the rights of Afghan women. Anne Brodsky, the first writer given in-depth access to visit and interview their members and operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan, shines light on the gruesome, often tragic, lives of Afghan women under some of the most brutal sexist oppression in the world.

Author : Nadia Hashimi
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063008304

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Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi Pdf

“Suspenseful…emotionally compelling. I found myself eagerly following in a way I hadn’t remembered for a long time, impatient for the next twist and turn of the story."—NPR An Afghan American woman returns to Kabul to learn the truth about her family and the tragedy that destroyed their lives in this brilliant and compelling novel from the bestselling author of The Pearl That Broke Its Shell, The House Without Windows, and When the Moon Is Low. Kabul, 1978: The daughter of a prominent family, Sitara Zamani lives a privileged life in Afghanistan’s thriving cosmopolitan capital. The 1970s are a time of remarkable promise under the leadership of people like Sardar Daoud, Afghanistan’s progressive president, and Sitara’s beloved father, his right-hand man. But the ten-year-old Sitara’s world is shattered when communists stage a coup, assassinating the president and Sitara’s entire family. Only she survives. Smuggled out of the palace by a guard named Shair, Sitara finds her way to the home of a female American diplomat, who adopts her and raises her in America. In her new country, Sitara takes on a new name—Aryana Shepherd—and throws herself into her studies, eventually becoming a renowned surgeon. A survivor, Aryana has refused to look back, choosing instead to bury the trauma and devastating loss she endured. New York, 2008: Thirty years after that fatal night in Kabul, Aryana’s world is rocked again when an elderly patient appears in her examination room—a man she never expected to see again. It is Shair, the soldier who saved her, yet may have murdered her entire family. Seeing him awakens Aryana’s fury and desire for answers—and, perhaps, revenge. Realizing that she cannot go on without finding the truth, Aryana embarks on a quest that takes her back to Kabul—a battleground between the corrupt government and the fundamentalist Taliban—and through shadowy memories of the world she loved and lost. Bold, illuminating, heartbreaking, yet hopeful, Sparks Like Stars is a story of home—of America and Afghanistan, tragedy and survival, reinvention and remembrance, told in Nadia Hashimi’s singular voice.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1771339152

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Under a Kabul Sky by Anonim Pdf

These twelve short stories dive deeply into the imaginary worlds of Afghan women, where everyday life is marked and marred by war. They speak of wounded love, capture, confinement, talismans, borders, and wolves. Contributing authors include Wasima Badghisi, Batool Haidari, Alia Ataee, Sedighe Kazemi, Khaleda Khorsand, Masouma Kawsari, Mariam Mahboob, Toorpekai Qayum, Manizha Bakhtari, Homeira Qaderi, Parween Pazhwak, and Homayra Rafat.

Author : Rosemarie Skaine
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786481743

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The Women of Afghanistan Under the Taliban by Rosemarie Skaine Pdf

Even though the people of Afghanistan in general suffered under the rule of the Taliban, women lived especially difficult lives, enduring terrible hardships. They were denied basic human rights, forced to wear veils and kept in seclusion. This work addresses the religion, revolution, and national identity of Afghan women and places them within their gender-political and religious-political roles, thus elevating our understanding of their abuse, imprisonment and murder, and offering a basis for their rehabilitation. Powerful and moving interviews with Afghan women conducted and translated by the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan are presented and a brief history of the struggle of the Afghan women and an overview of the conflict between the Afghans and the Taliban are included.

Author : Taran Khan
Publisher : Arrow
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 178470802X

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Shadow City by Taran Khan Pdf

Author : Zarghuna Kargar
Publisher : Random House
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409029144

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Dear Zari by Zarghuna Kargar Pdf

'A poignant celebration of human resilience' Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner Dear Zari gives voice to the secret lives of women across Afghanistan and allows them to tell their stories in their own words: from the child bride given as payment to end a family feud; to a life spent in a dark, dusty room weaving carpets; to a young girl brought up as a boy; to life as a widow shunned by society. Dear Zari uncovers the reality of life in Afghanistan.

Author : Phyllis Chesler
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781137365576

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An American Bride in Kabul by Phyllis Chesler Pdf

Few westerners will ever be able to understand Muslim or Afghan society unless they are part of a Muslim family. Twenty years old and in love, Phyllis Chesler, a Jewish-American girl from Brooklyn, embarked on an adventure that has lasted for more than a half-century. In 1961, when she arrived in Kabul with her Afghan bridegroom, authorities took away her American passport. Chesler was now the property of her husband's family and had no rights of citizenship. Back in Afghanistan, her husband, a wealthy, westernized foreign college student with dreams of reforming his country, reverted to traditional and tribal customs. Chesler found herself unexpectedly trapped in a posh polygamous family, with no chance of escape. She fought against her seclusion and lack of freedom, her Afghan family's attempts to convert her from Judaism to Islam, and her husband's wish to permanently tie her to the country through childbirth. Drawing upon her personal diaries, Chesler recounts her ordeal, the nature of gender apartheid—and her longing to explore this beautiful, ancient, and exotic country and culture. Chesler nearly died there but she managed to get out, returned to her studies in America, and became an author and an ardent activist for women's rights throughout the world. An American Bride in Kabul is the story of how a naïve American girl learned to see the world through eastern as well as western eyes and came to appreciate Enlightenment values. This dramatic tale re-creates a time gone by, a place that is no more, and shares the way in which Chesler turned adversity into a passion for world-wide social, educational, and political reform.

Author : Fariba Ghorbani
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781483612300

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A Girl from Afghanistan by Fariba Ghorbani Pdf

“The present book is the story of a woman. This is a story for women who have the same feelings, regardless of their nationality—whether they are American or Afghan, Canadian or Iranian. They all try to be closer to each other and share their problems with each other and find a way to solve their problems in the twenty-first century.”

Author : Irris Makler
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Afghanistan
ISBN : 1863253866

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Our Woman in Kabul by Irris Makler Pdf

Having managed to talk her way into some of the most dangerous hot spots in Northern Afghanistan and then Kabul, award-winning journalist Irris Makler not only covered the day-to-day war but befriended and uncovered the stories behind the scenes of Afghani women caught in the crossfire.Entering a war zone as a freelancer without any of the back-up or safety nets provided by a major network,Irris was literally a woman on her own in a man's world, but through her tenacity, considerable powers of persuasion and obvious talent for nosing out a story - helped along by fluent Russian - she ended up filing for European, American and Australian television and radio. Her Australian outlets included Channel 9's 'The Today Show' and The Australian.It was not easy being a woman alone on the ground in Afghanistan, where local women were rarley allowed to venture outside their home, but Irris had one distinct advantage over her male colleagues. She could interview Afghan women, whereas men were not allowed to even approach them, mind talk to them. The stories of these women, many of them heroes in their own right, and the journey they take Irris on as she reassesses her life alongside theirs and copes with the constraints and often crazy circumstances of being a lone woman in a war zone, sets this story apart and makes for compelling reading - often very frightening and sad, but also at times surprisingly funny.While Irris witnessed the US air strikes, explored the ruins of Osama Bin Laden's Al Quaeda training camps, she also met some of the most extraordinary women she has encountered in two years of covering this region. This is as much their story as hers.

Author : Ann Jones
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781466827653

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Kabul in Winter by Ann Jones Pdf

A sharp and arresting people's-eye view of real life in Afghanistan after the Taliban Soon after the bombing of Kabul ceased, award-winning journalist and women's rights activist Ann Jones set out for the shattered city, determined to bring help where her country had brought destruction. Here is her trenchant report from inside a city struggling to rise from the ruins. Working among the multitude of impoverished war widows, retraining Kabul's long-silenced English teachers, and investigating the city's prison for women, Jones enters a large community of female outcasts: runaway child brides, pariah prostitutes, cast-off wives, victims of rape. In the streets and markets, she hears the Afghan view of the supposed benefits brought by the fall of the Taliban, and learns that regarding women as less than human is the norm, not the aberration of one conspicuously repressive regime. Jones confronts the ways in which Afghan education, culture, and politics have repeatedly been hijacked—by Communists, Islamic fundamentalists, and the Western free marketeers—always with disastrous results. And she reveals, through small events, the big disjunctions: between U.S promises and performance, between the new "democracy" and the still-entrenched warlords, between what's boasted of and what is. At once angry, profound, and starkly beautiful, Kabul in Winter brings alive the people and day-to-day life of a place whose future depends so much upon our own.

Author : Ukmina Manoori
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781632200013

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I Am a Bacha Posh by Ukmina Manoori Pdf

A 2015 Amelia Bloomer List Selection "You will be a son, my daughter." With these stunning words Ukmina learned that she was to spend her childhood as a boy. In Afghanistan there is a widespread practice of girls dressing as boys to play the role of a son. These children are called bacha posh: literally "girls dressed as boys." This practice offers families the freedom to allow their child to shop and work—and in some cases, it saves them from the disgrace of not having a male heir. But in adolescence, religion restores the natural law. The girls must marry, give birth, and give up their freedom. Ukmina decided to confront social and family pressure and keep her menswear. This brave choice paved the way for an extraordinary destiny: she wages war against the Soviets, assists the mujaheddin and ultimately commands the respect of all whom she encounters. She eventually becomes one of the elected council members of her province. But freedom always has a price. For "Ukmina warrior" that price was her life as a woman. This is a stunning and brave memoir about a little known practice that will challenge your perceptions about gender and the courage it takes to live your life to the fullest. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Author : George W. Bush Institute,Laura Bush
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501120510

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We Are Afghan Women by George W. Bush Institute,Laura Bush Pdf

We Are Afghan Women chronicles the lives of young and old, daughters and mothers, educated and those who are still learning. Their stories are a stark reminder that women's progress in society, business, and politics cannot be taken for granted. Many of these women face serious risks for speaking so openly, but they want the world to listen. Their words will change not only how we as Americans see Afghanistan but also how we understand the complex challenges still facing women and girls around the globe.