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Inside the Afghan Women's Resistance
by Cheryl Benard
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by Kim Barker
Published Mar 2012
Read ReviewsA true-life Catch-22 set in the deeply dysfunctional countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan, by one of the region's longest-serving correspondents.
by Khaled Hosseini
Published Nov 2008
Read ReviewsAt once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love.
by Elizabeth D. Samet
Published Sep 2008
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by Deborah Rodriguez, Kristin Ohlson
Published Dec 2007
Read ReviewsSoon 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. 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. ...
by Dan Fesperman
Published Sep 2005
Read ReviewsA burned-out war correspondent hoping for a last hurrah in Afghanistan arrives on the Afghan border just as American bombs begin falling on the ruling Taliban in this fast-paced, timely, and galvanizing novel.
by Carmen Bin Ladin
Published Jun 2005
Read ReviewsThe ex-wife of Osama Bin Ladin's older brother speaks out in this shocking, impossible to put down memoir.
by Khaled Hosseini
Published Apr 2004
Read ReviewsAn epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present.
by Azar Nafisi
Published Dec 2003
Read ReviewsNafisis luminous tale offers a fascinating portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of womens lives in revolutionary Iran.
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