afghanistan

Afghanistan is not just a place of war. It's also a land of great beauty, hospitable villagers, stunning landscapes, and great cultural diversity.

Fariba Nawa fled Afghanistan as a child with her family during the Soviet invasion twenty years earlier. When she returned as an adult, she discovered a fractured country transformed by a multibillion-dollar drug trade.

On December 7, 2004 when he was sworn in as Afghanistan's first democratically elected president, Hamid Karzai had a lot to heal: Soviet troops had invaded, the mujahideen had resisted the invasion, the Taliban had moved into the country and U. S. military action after 9/11 had left the country in ruins.

Recounts the events surrounding the last battle of the Cold War and discusses how those events fueled the new jihad and led to the rise of militant Islam.

Saira Shah reflects on how being the English-born daughter of an Afghan aristocrat impacted her life and led her to rediscover the history of her people.

Introduces young readers to the geography and culture of Afghanistan.

An American man, a French physician, and a English woman are terrorized by the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.

The time is several generations after the death of Alexander the Great; the setting, the Central Asian remnant of his sprawling empire, where legend and history are one, where men and women lead lives of nobility and fierce passion.