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Walking the precipice : witness to the rise of the Taliban / Barbara Bick.

Title
Walking the precipice : witness to the rise of the Taliban / Barbara Bick.
Author
Bick, Barbara.
Publication
New York : Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 2008.

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Additional Authors
Naby, Eden.
Description
167 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
"In 1990, sixty-five year old Barbara Bick joined a peace delegation for what she thought would be her last great adventure, a trip to Afghanistan. Instead, Bick forged an intense commitment to the country, particularly after the Taliban came to power with its fiercely anti-woman policies. She returned in 2001, when most people her age wouldn't dream of trekking through the desolation northern regions of Afghanistan. And there, on September 9, she was a guest at the compound where Al Qaeda operatives assassinated the Taliban's main opponent just before their attack on the US. Bick returned to Afghanistan one last time, in 2003, for a women's constitutional convention, the culmination of the hopes and hard work of thousands of Afghan women"--Jacket.
Alternative Title
Witness to the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan
Subject
  • Afghanistan > History > 1989-2001
  • Afghanistan > History > 2001-
  • Bick, Barbara
  • Taliban
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Kabul, 1990 -- Against the Taliban, 1992-2001 -- Journey to the land of the Mujaheddin -- Khoja Bahauddin -- Fairzabad -- The assassins -- My Afghan family, 2002 -- Kabul redux, 2003.
ISBN
  • 9781558615861 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9781558615922 (library : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008009274