Walking the precipice : witness to the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan / Barbara Bick ; foreword by Eden Naby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bick, Barbara.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Afghanistan--History--1989-2001.

Afghanistan.

History.

Afghanistan--History--2001-2021.

Taliban.

Bick, Barbara.

Physical Description:

xix, 167 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2009.

Summary:

In 1990, sixty-five-year-old Barbara Bick joined a peace delegation for what she thought would be her last great adventure, a trip to Afghanistan. Instead, Bick forged an intense commitment to the country, particularly after the Taliban came to power with its fiercely anti-woman policies. She returned in 2001, when most people her age wouldn't dream of trekking through the desolate northern regions of Afghanistan. And there, on September 9, she was a guest at the compound where Al Qaeda operatives assassinated the Taliban's main opponent just before their attacks on the US. Bick returned to Afghanistan one last time, in 2003, for a women's constitutional convention, the culmination of the hopes and hard work of thousands of Afghan women.

Contents:

Kabul, 1990

Against the Taliban, 1992-2000

Journey to the land of the Mujahidin, 2001

Khoja Bahauddin

Faizabad

The assassins

Kabul redux, 2003.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781558615861

1558615865

9781558615922

155861592X

OCLC:

212627303