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| Title | : | In My Father's Country: An Afghan Woman Defies Her Fate |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.94 (537 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0307884945 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 352Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-8-23 |
| Language | : | English |
Locke's survey of the great wealth-creators to be as unique as the subjects he studies. This is a cute little board book, BUT I am in complete shock that one of the pages is nothing short of macabre. gold, would be much more revealing then looking in terms of dollars.My suspicion is that this book will be widely quoted by various partisan sources to score political points. Most boys would love to be a warrior! They want to fight battles, win,conquer! In this book, "Once upon a real time" a boy named Luke, dreams of becoming a courageous warrior. I should know - this book gave me the solution for my son's difficult acne problem. Great for sight reading. And maybe I also bought this same book for 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. Perfect for a letter of the week curriculum.. Bethge gathered together and published many of Bonhoeffer's unpublished works, and wrote what has been to this point the most definitive biography, but the time has come for a new definitive biography. Her family fled to Pakistan to escape the rule of the KGB as Russia invaded Afghanistan. It would be a mistake, however, for women to conclude that since this book is specifica
army officials and Afghan warlords alike. When she arrived in Afghanistan in the winter of 2004, Saima was among the few college-educated female Pashto speakers in the entire country. The blessing of the Pashtun is essential, but the U.S. army was so unaware of the workings of this ancient, proud, insular ethic group, that they would routinely send Farsi interpreters into Pashtun villages. As a Pashtun-born American citizen, Saima found herself in an extraordinary position—to be able to explain the people of her native land to those of her adopted one, and vice versa, in a quest to forge new and lasting bonds between two misunderstood cultures. In My Father’s Country follows her amazing transformation from child refugee to nervous Pashtun interpreter to intrepid “human terrain” specialist, venturing with her twenty-five-soldier force pro-tection into isolated Pashtun villages to engage hostile village elders in the first, very frank dialogue they had ever had with the Americans.From her posting at the forward operating base Farah in Afghanistan’Since then she has become one of the only Pashtun female translators in the world, and—among other consequent roles—has returned to Afghanistan several times to work as a cultural adviser with the U.S.. Army. SAIMA WAHAB was born in Afghanistan, went to Pakistan as a refugee, and moved to the United States as a teenager. She lives in Washington, D.C
While fighting to build a bridge of understanding between her 'native and adoptive nations,' Wahab admirably wages a more universal war--for gender equality, human rights, and peace."--Publisher's Weekly (starred review)"Extraordinarytailed, livelyA carefully wrought work that allows a rare look inside Pashtun culture."--Kirkus Reviews. "In vibrant but understated prose, Wahab vividly portrays a misunderstood culture, as well as the tense life on military bases where everyone must wear body armor and carry a weapon
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