Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.7 / 5.0

A Revealing Book About Two Cultures:

I've read other books about the Taliban and so forth, but if you want to get some idea of Afghan people and society in basic human terms--in terms that most Americans (like me) can really understand--then this is the book I'd recommend. Ansary's life has bridged the cultures, and he's able to talk about both America and Afghanistan with insight and compassion. One fascinating irony is that Ansary's younger brother went back to the Middle East where he advocates for the Muslim fundamentalist view. It's... more info

One of the best books I've ever read!!:

Wow! It is so rare to finish a book in just a few sittings simmply by lack of will-power to tear yourself away from it. Rare still is it to find a non-fictional book having that effect. Buy this one. If you like that feeling of not being able to resist reading "just 10 more pages" and having it turn into 50, you won't regret this book.

In brief, it is about a hyphenated man - born in Afghanistan by an american mother (the first american mother ever to live in Afhanistan) and an Afghani father. By... more info

Good book but an unanswered question:

Very readable, very moving. I especially like his account of travelling in Morocco and Algeria. One thing stands out: how wrong the famous "e-mail" turned out to be. In brief, it said: the Taliban are monsters, but we can't bomb them, because that would kill too many innocents, and we can't invade by land, because Pakistan would never allow it, so I guess we'll just have to let them be and hope for the best." (Mr A, forgive me if this is an unfair paraphrase; it's how I read it).

Obviously, things didn't... more info

Similar Products:

Enforcing Restraint: Collective Intervention in Internal Conflicts by Lori Fisler Damrosch

Torn Between Two Cultures: An Afghan-American Woman Speaks Out (Capital Currents... by Maryam Qudrat Aseel

Friend by Day, Enemy by Night: Organized Vengeance in a Kohistani Community... by Lincoln Keiser

Fighting for Faith and Nation: Dialogues With Sikh Militants (Series in... by Cynthia Keppley Mahmood

Us Special Operations Forces in Action: The Challenge of Unconventional Warfare by Thomas K. Adams

?