Author: Lowell ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Beyond Khyber Pass Into Forbidden Afghanistan
Author: Lowell ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Beyond Khyber Pass Into Forbidden Afghanistan
Author: Lowell ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Beyond Khyber Pass
Author: Lowell ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Beyond Khyber Pass
Author: Lowell ThomasPublisher: Long Riders' Guild Press
ISBN: 9781590482551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Lowell Thomas was already known for his run of good luck. Back in 1916 the brash American reporter had been the first journalist to venture into the desolation of the Arabian deserts in search of the legendary Lawrence of Arabia. But now, with that story and the First World War behind him, Thomas was hungry again. He was looking for new adventures, new heroes and, most of all, new geographical challenges. He found them all in one country: Afghanistan! The Forbidden Kingdom, as it was popularly known in the 1920s, had turned her back on Europe and the West for several decades. Not to be put off, Thomas applied for a tourist visa, planning on writing a few articles about the colorful Pathan tribesmen who inhabited the desolate deserts of the south, and the secretive non-Muslim inhabitants of the mountainous north of Afghanistan. In fact, Thomas saw neither. The Afghans were suspicious of strangers, especially an American journalist. They promptly denied him his request for access to the fortified mountain kingdom. What followed was a two-year cat-and-mouse game between the determined American and the reclusive Afghans. Eventually, in 1927, the government in Kabul did agree to let Thomas enter their country, but only, Thomas learned later, after Amir Amalluah Khan, the king of Afghanistan, had personally intervened on his behalf. This is Lowell's story of how he slipped past the infamous Khyber Pass, that door of stone which had refused to open for two years, and made his way into a kingdom which had remained unchanged for more than a thousand years. It is a bold story, filled with the people of remote Central Asia, and depicts this important cultural crossroads before it was forever changed by the wars of the late twentieth century.
Beyond Khyber Pass
Author: Lowell ThomasDynamics of Political Development in Afghanistan
Author: H. EmadiPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230112005
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book examines how dependent development and struggles for power within and outside the state apparatus led to formation of alliances with imperial powers and how the latter used these alliances to manipulate political development in Afghanistan to their own advantage.
Repression, Resistance, and Women in Afghanistan
Author: Hafizullah EmadiPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313012466
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Afghan women have faced an exhaustive struggle in the battle to change their status and improve their situation. Emadi takes a long look at the role of development and modernization policies implemented by the state in the pre- and post-Soviet eras, under the Taliban, and beyond. He finds that such policies have failed to bring about much- needed change and improvement for women. Modernization strategies benefited only a small segment of urban women and left the plight of rural women unchanged. Although a small segment of middle- and upper-class women organized themselves and fought to bring about changes in their status and to end gender inequality, their efforts alone did not meet with much success. Islamic orthodoxy and orthopraxy in the Taliban era restricted women's freedom of movement, access to education, and medical care. Using personal accounts not readily available to researchers or scholars, Emadi explores the diverse factors that contributed to women's oppression both at home and in society. This study provides a detailed analysis of state policies toward women's emancipation within the context of a traditional Islamic society. It chronicles the course of the women's movement and women's organizations still active in the political arena and puts forth an alternative plan to involve women in the reconstruction process in both urban and rural areas.
Quarterly Review of Military Literature
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Kabul: a History 1773-1948
Author: May SchinasiPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004325328
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Through years of neglect, deliberate modernization, and the effect of decades of war, Kabul’s architectural history has virtually disappeared. By meticulous use of all available records including written works, photographs, films, and oral reminiscences, Kabul: A History 1773-1948 provides a remarkably complete and unsurpassed account of the city’s history as seen through its built environment, from the pleasure gardens of the 16th and 17th century Mughals to the efforts of the Saduza’i and Muhammadza’i rulers of the 18th-20th centuries to turn this one-time resort town into a thriving capital city at the center of a country of enormous diversity. Thoroughly documented and well-illustrated, the book reveals the rich cultural legacy of a city of global importance.
A Rope and a Prayer
Author: David RohdePublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143120050
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The compelling and insightful account of a New York Times reporter's abduction by the Taliban, and his wife's struggle to free him. In November 2008, David Rohde, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The New York Times, was kidnapped by the Taliban and held captive for seven months in the tribal areas of Pakistan. In the process, Rohde became the first American to witness how Pakistan's powerful military turns a blind eye toward a Taliban ministate thriving inside its borders. In New York, David's wife Kristen Mulvihill, together with his family, kept the kidnapping secret for David's safety and struggled to navigate a labyrinth of conflicting agendas, misinformation, and lies. Part memoir, part work of journalism, A Rope and a Prayer is a story of duplicity, faith, resilience, and love.