by Stephenie Foster | Aug 24, 2012 | Book Reviews, Women in the Middle East/North Africa
Like Rory Stewart, who wrote The Places In Between, Asne Seierstad came to Afghanistan two weeks after the fall of the Taliban. However, her book, The Bookseller of Kabul, is a different kind of portrait of Afghans and Afghanistan than Stewart’s account of his walk...
by Stephenie Foster | Dec 26, 2012 | Book Reviews, Women in Leadership, Women in Politics
This article also appeared on the Huffington Post, January 23, 2013. I’m on an email list where, at each year end, we exchange lists of books and movies we recommend to each other. This year, I decided to focus on books and films re Afghanistan. This is in no way a...