ISBN: 9781558615861 - walking the precipice: witness to the rise of the taliban in afghanistan (7 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An "enthralling" memoir of a woman who risked her life to help a people under siege and a country caught between freedom and oppression (Publishers Weeklystarred review).In 1990, sixty-five-year-old activist and grandmother Barbara Bick traveled with a women's delegation to Afghanistan for what she thought would be her last great adventure. Instead, Bick forged deep friendships with her Afghan hostsonly to watch in horror as the Taliban took over most of the country and instituted fiercely anti-woman policies.Eleven years later, at age 76, Bick returned to Afghanistan, travelling to the region controlled by the Northern Alliance, an anti-Taliban militia. In early September 2001, Bick walked out of a compound where militia leader Ahmad Shah Massoud was also staying. Minutes later, Taliban infiltrators assassinated Massouda prelude to the al Qaeda attacks on the United States.As the US government became deeply involved in Afghanistan, Bick decided to return once again to see how women were faring under the new government. In 2004, she was one of the few Western women able to bring years of experience to understanding the country's trauma.Walking the Precipicegives new insight into the people, politics, and culture of a country that is on everyone's radarfor its beauty, and for its tragic place history.…