The wake of war encounters with the people of Iraq and Afghanistan
In the spring of 2003, acclaimed journalist Anne Nivat set off from Tajikistan on a six-month journey through the aftermath of the American invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. Nivat felt compelled to meet and write about the lives of everyday people, whom she allows to speak in their ow...
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Beacon Press
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- In Iraq after the U.S. military victory of April 2003
- The proscenium
- En route to Erbil
- A Kurdish family
- A young leader
- The major holidays
- A Turkoman family
- En route to Baghdad
- Baghdad
- A Dominican friar
- A resistance fighter and a former fedayee
- In the "Sunni triangle"
- En route to An Najaf
- A Shiite family
- A former admiral
- A man of the theater
- In Afghanistan, after the U.S. military victory of December 2001
- En route to Kunduz
- A teacher
- En route to Badakhshān
- An engineer
- A gynecologist
- En route to Mazˉar-E-Sharif
- A war chief
- En route to Kabul
- Kabul
- En route to Kandahār
- A former Taliban
- En route to Khost
- A governor and former commander
- The minor holidays
- Detour through Peshawar.