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The Taliban Reader
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Authors: Alex Strick van Linschoten
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Who are the Taliban? Are they a militant movement? Are they religious scholars? The fact that these and other questions are still raised with frequency is testi
My Life with the Taliban
Language: en
Pages: 382
Authors: Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-06-16 - Publisher: Hurst & Company Limited

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Abdul Zaeef describes growing up in poverty in rural Kandahar province, which he fled for Pakistan after the Russian invasion of 1979. Zaeef joined the jihad in
In the Hands of the Taliban
Language: en
Pages: 199
Authors: Yvonne Ridley
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-05 - Publisher: Robson

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Yvonne Ridley's terrifying 10 day detainment by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan struck a chord that continues to resonate around the world. At a time when the
After the Taliban
Language: en
Pages: 254
Authors: James Dobbins
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.

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In October 2001, the Bush administration sent Amb. James F. Dobbins, who had overseen nation-building efforts in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo, to war-torn
The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan
Language: en
Pages: 443
Authors: Robert D. Crews
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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[This book] explores ... how has a seemingly anachronistic band of religious zealots managed to retain a tenacious foothold in the struggle for Afghanistan's fu