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Destiny Disrupted
The Western narrative of world history largely omits a whole civilization. Destiny Disrupted tells the history of the world from the Islamic point of view, and restores the …
West of Kabul, East of New York
An Afghan American most recently known for an e-mail he wrote on his views on U.S. reprisals against Afghanistan after the September 11 attacks shares his experiences of Islam and …
The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir
An inspirational memoir of the teenage author's struggles to survive her youth in war-torn Kabul describes her witness to brutal conflicts between the mujahideen and the Soviets …
Destiny Disrupted
This sweeping history illuminates how Muslims must have seen the history of the world - and what western world history leaves out. We in the West share a common narrative of world …
Road Trips: Becoming an American in the Vapor Trail of the Sixties
The Invention of Yesterday
Forty thousand years ago, the human species existed as thousands of small, virtually autonomous bands, roaming a world almost entirely untouched their presence, each band in …
The Widow's Husband
Games Without Rules
Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real; but it sits atop an older struggle, between Kabul …
One Story, Thirty Stories
Collects poetry, fiction, essays, and selections from two blogs from thirty-three men and women poets, fiction writers, journalists, filmmakers and video artists, photographers, …
Games without Rules
The history of modern Afghanistan is an epic drama, a thriller, a tragedy, a surreal farce. Every forty years or so, over the last two centuries, some great global power has …