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Forbidden lessons in a Kabul guesthouse : the true story of a woman who risked everything to bring hope to Afghanistan, Suraya Sadeed with Damien Lewis
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- Summary
- Set amidst some of the most inhospitable conditions in war-torn, Taliban-seized Afghanistan, this book is an adventure story with heart that tells Sadeed's inspiring fight to bring aid, education, and peace training to Afghan citizens
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- viii, 280 p.
- Note
- First published: New York : Voice/?Hyperion
- Contents
-
- Prologue: Lessons by lamplight
- pt. 1. Finding hope in a lawless Afghanistan (1995)
- Help the Afghan Children
- The beginning
- The camel road
- The devil's flowers
- The edge of darkness
- The widow camp
- City of ghosts
- A promise to Fatima
- pt. 2. Imperfect peace under the Taliban
- The tree of amputations
- It is what it is
- Stoned and flying out here
- The day the Earth turned angry
- Of life and love
- Young enough to wed
- The darkness before the dawn
- Singing with the Taliban
- The kindness of strangers
- pt. 3. Under a hail of American bombs (September 2001-present)
- The day everything changed
- The wrong side of the border
- The boy who killed the American
- Hearts and minds
- Epilogue: Drop by drop a river forms
- Afterword
- Isbn
- 9781844086627
- Label
- Forbidden lessons in a Kabul guesthouse : the true story of a woman who risked everything to bring hope to Afghanistan
- Title
- Forbidden lessons in a Kabul guesthouse
- Title remainder
- the true story of a woman who risked everything to bring hope to Afghanistan
- Statement of responsibility
- Suraya Sadeed with Damien Lewis
- Subject
-
- trueAfghan War, 2001- -- Social aspects
- trueAfghanistan -- History -- 1989-2001 -- Biography
- trueAfghanistan -- History -- 2001- -- Biography
- trueAfghanistan -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- trueAfghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- trueChildren -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions
- trueAfghan American women -- Biography
- Sadeed, Suraya
- trueSocial reformers -- Afghanistan -- Biography
- trueWomen social reformers -- Afghanistan -- Biography
- Help the Afghan Children (Organization)
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Set amidst some of the most inhospitable conditions in war-torn, Taliban-seized Afghanistan, this book is an adventure story with heart that tells Sadeed's inspiring fight to bring aid, education, and peace training to Afghan citizens
- Biography type
- autobiography
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sadeed, Suraya
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Lewis, Damien
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Sadeed, Suraya
- Help the Afghan Children (Organization)
- Women social reformers
- Social reformers
- Afghan American women
- Children
- Afghan War, 2001-
- Afghanistan
- Afghanistan
- Afghanistan
- Afghanistan
- Label
- Forbidden lessons in a Kabul guesthouse : the true story of a woman who risked everything to bring hope to Afghanistan, Suraya Sadeed with Damien Lewis
- Note
- First published: New York : Voice/?Hyperion
- Contents
- Prologue: Lessons by lamplight -- pt. 1. Finding hope in a lawless Afghanistan (1995) -- Help the Afghan Children -- The beginning -- The camel road -- The devil's flowers -- The edge of darkness -- The widow camp -- City of ghosts -- A promise to Fatima -- pt. 2. Imperfect peace under the Taliban -- The tree of amputations -- It is what it is -- Stoned and flying out here -- The day the Earth turned angry -- Of life and love -- Young enough to wed -- The darkness before the dawn -- Singing with the Taliban -- The kindness of strangers -- pt. 3. Under a hail of American bombs (September 2001-present) -- The day everything changed -- The wrong side of the border -- The boy who killed the American -- Hearts and minds -- Epilogue: Drop by drop a river forms -- Afterword
- Control code
- 000047250848
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- viii, 280 p.
- Isbn
- 9781844086627
- Label
- Forbidden lessons in a Kabul guesthouse : the true story of a woman who risked everything to bring hope to Afghanistan, Suraya Sadeed with Damien Lewis
- Note
- First published: New York : Voice/?Hyperion
- Contents
- Prologue: Lessons by lamplight -- pt. 1. Finding hope in a lawless Afghanistan (1995) -- Help the Afghan Children -- The beginning -- The camel road -- The devil's flowers -- The edge of darkness -- The widow camp -- City of ghosts -- A promise to Fatima -- pt. 2. Imperfect peace under the Taliban -- The tree of amputations -- It is what it is -- Stoned and flying out here -- The day the Earth turned angry -- Of life and love -- Young enough to wed -- The darkness before the dawn -- Singing with the Taliban -- The kindness of strangers -- pt. 3. Under a hail of American bombs (September 2001-present) -- The day everything changed -- The wrong side of the border -- The boy who killed the American -- Hearts and minds -- Epilogue: Drop by drop a river forms -- Afterword
- Control code
- 000047250848
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- viii, 280 p.
- Isbn
- 9781844086627
Subject
- trueAfghan War, 2001- -- Social aspects
- trueAfghanistan -- History -- 1989-2001 -- Biography
- trueAfghanistan -- History -- 2001- -- Biography
- trueAfghanistan -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- trueAfghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- trueChildren -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions
- trueAfghan American women -- Biography
- Sadeed, Suraya
- trueSocial reformers -- Afghanistan -- Biography
- trueWomen social reformers -- Afghanistan -- Biography
- Help the Afghan Children (Organization)
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