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West Of Kabul East Of New York
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Author : Tamim Ansary
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2003-03-01
West Of Kabul East Of New York written by Tamim Ansary and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-01 with Political Science categories.
A passionate personal journey through two cultures in conflict Shortly after militant Islamic terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, Tamim Ansary of San Francisco sent an e-mail to twenty friends, telling how the threatened U.S. reprisals against Afghanistan looked to him as an Afghan American. The message spread, and in a few days it had reached, and affected, millions of people-Afghans and Americans, soldiers and pacifists, conservative Christians and talk-show hosts; for the message, written in twenty minutes, was one Ansary had been writing all his life. West of Kabul, East of New York is an urgent communiqué by an American with "an Afghan soul still inside me," who has lived in the very different worlds of Islam and the secular West. The son of an Afghan man and the first American woman to live as an Afghan, Ansary grew up in the intimate world of Afghan family life, one never seen by outsiders. No sooner had he emigrated to San Francisco than he was drawn into the community of Afghan expatriates sustained by the dream of returning to their country -and then drawn back to the Islamic world himself to discover the nascent phenomenon of militant religious fundamentalism. Tamim Ansary has emerged as one of the most eloquent voices on the conflict between Islam and the West. His book is a deeply personal account of the struggle to reconcile two great civilizations and to find some point in the imagination where they might meet.
West Of Kabul East Of San Francisco
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Author : Ehsan M. Entezar
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2016-10-07
West Of Kabul East Of San Francisco written by Ehsan M. Entezar and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
West of Kabul, East of San Francisco is the highlights of my life story. Keeping a diary is not common in developing countries such as Afghanistan, and this makes autobiographies less common in these countries. The existing biographies and autobiographies in the Islamic countries are mostly those about the Prophet Mohammad and other important religious figures or monarchs. These biographies, however, are full of praise. This historic precedent has also had its effect on autobiographies written by Western-educated Afghans. They too are full of praise and criticisms of rivals, rarely talking about their own problems and weaknesses. In other words, they are mostly self-centered and egotistical in nature. In West of Kabul, East of San Francisco, I have tried to be as objective as possible in avoiding such pitfalls. I describe events and relationships as realistically as possible. But I realize that no one can entirely escape the influence of their mother culture.
Summary Of Tamim Ansary S West Of Kabul East Of New York
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-09-17T00:00:00Z
Summary Of Tamim Ansary S West Of Kabul East Of New York written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-17T00:00:00Z with Social Science categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 In Afghanistan, people lived in compounds, where they spent all their time with their group. In the West, we spend most of our time alone, because we’re too afraid of being alone. #2 In Afghanistan, people lived in compounds, where they spent all their time with their group. In the West, we spend most of our time alone because we're too afraid of being alone. #3 In Afghanistan, people lived in compounds where they spent all their time with their group. In the West, we spend most of our time alone because we're too afraid of being alone. #4 My dad, who was from Afghanistan, was given a scholarship to study in the US. He went to the University of Illinois, and when he tried to find housing, landlords slammed the door in his face because he was Asian. His bloodline could never be taken away from him.
Games Without Rules
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Author : Tamim Ansary
language : en
Publisher: Public Affairs
Release Date : 2014-03-04
Games Without Rules written by Tamim Ansary and has been published by Public Affairs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-04 with History categories.
By the author of Destiny Disrupted: an enlightening, accessible history of modern Afghanistan from the Afghan point of view, showing how Great Power conflicts have interrupted its ongoing, internal struggle to take form as a nation
West Of Kabul East Of New York
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Author : Mir Tamim Ansary
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
West Of Kabul East Of New York written by Mir Tamim Ansary and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Civilization, Islamic categories.
Road Trips
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Author : Tamim Ansary
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-07-15
Road Trips written by Tamim Ansary and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-15 with categories.
Road Trips, a memoir by Tamim Ansary, recounts stories from his years as part of the American '60s and '70s counterculture-except, he's not really a part of it. Born and raised in Afghanistan, Ansary came to America at age 16, just in time to get swept away by the tsunamis of the Sixties. This is the story of an outsider trying to become an insider by dropping out of a society he's not part of in the first place. In the process, he hitchhikes across the North America from coast to coast with five dollars in his pocket, spends a night in an abandoned gas station in Nebraska during an apocalyptic blizzard, misses Woodstock but only by a f ew miles, drops acid and encounters the terrors of The Void, hobnobs with Baba Ram Dass at an ashram in Vermont, and goes on a four-month road trip that begins as a quest for True Home and ends in the Yucatan jungle with a girlfriend who is waiting for her other boyfriend. The stories unfold against a familiar background-communes and collectives, Woodstock and Watergate, sex, dope, acid, and rock'n'roll-but ultimately this is not a history of those all-too-chronicled times; rather, it is a philosophic meditation on the mythic private journey from clueless childhood to contemplative old age.
Opium Nation
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Author : Fariba Nawa
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2011-11-08
Opium Nation written by Fariba Nawa and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-08 with Travel categories.
Afghan-American journalist Fariba Nawa delivers a revealing and deeply personal explorationof Afghanistan and the drug trade which rules the country, from corruptofficials to warlords and child brides and beyond. KhaledHosseini, author of The Kite Runner and AThousand Splendid Suns calls Opium Nation “an insightful andinformative look at the global challenge of Afghan drug trade. Fariba Nawa weaves her personalstory of reconnecting with her homeland after 9/11 with a very engagingnarrative that chronicles Afghanistan’s dangerous descent into opiumtrafficking…and most revealingly, how the drug trade has damaged the lives ofordinary Afghan people.” Readers of Gayle Lemmon Tzemach’sThe Dressmaker of Khair Khanaand Rory Stewart’s The Places Between will find Nawa’spersonal, piercing, journalistic tale to be an indispensable addition to thecultural criticism covering this dire global crisis.
West Of Kabul East Of New York
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Author : Ansary Tamim
language : en
Publisher:
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West Of Kabul East Of New York written by Ansary Tamim and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
The Invention Of Yesterday
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Author : Tamim Ansary
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-10-01
The Invention Of Yesterday written by Tamim Ansary and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-01 with History categories.
From language to culture to cultural collision: the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age Traveling across millennia, weaving the experiences and world views of cultures both extinct and extant, The Invention of Yesterday shows that the engine of history is not so much heroic (battles won), geographic (farmers thrive), or anthropogenic (humans change the planet) as it is narrative. Many thousands of years ago, when we existed only as countless small autonomous bands of hunter-gatherers widely distributed through the wilderness, we began inventing stories--to organize for survival, to find purpose and meaning, to explain the unfathomable. Ultimately these became the basis for empires, civilizations, and cultures. And when various narratives began to collide and overlap, the encounters produced everything from confusion, chaos, and war to cultural efflorescence, religious awakenings, and intellectual breakthroughs. Through vivid stories studded with insights, Tamim Ansary illuminates the world-historical consequences of the unique human capacity to invent and communicate abstract ideas. In doing so, he also explains our ever-more-intertwined present: the narratives now shaping us, the reasons we still battle one another, and the future we may yet create.
The Kite Runner
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Author : Khaled Hosseini
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-09-05
The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-05 with Fiction categories.
Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.