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Open skies : my life as Afghanistan's first female pilot / Niloofar Rahmani with Adam Sikes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rahmani, Niloofar, author.
- Sikes, Adam, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rahmani, Niloofar.
- Women air pilots--Afghanistan--Biography.
- Women air pilots.
- Air pilots--Afghanistan--Biography.
- Air pilots.
- Afghanistan.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2021]
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Front Flip: About the Author
- Title Page
- Half Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Author's Note
- Preface
- 1. My Father
- 2. The Soviets
- 3. Courtship
- 4. Civil War
- 5. Escape
- 6. The Refugee Camp
- 7. Karachi
- 8. Our Return
- 9. Life Under the Taliban
- 10. September 11, 2001
- 11. Invasion and Freedom
- 12. School
- 13. Not Everything Changes
- 14. Dreams Form
- 15. University
- 16. A Commercial
- 17. Recruitment
- 18. Basic Training
- 19. Friends, Reflection, and Graduation
- 20. Joining the Air Force
- 21. Medical Test and More Tests
- 22. English Is a Requirement
- 23. Move West
- 24. Flight Training
- 25. First Flight
- 26. Things Change
- 27. Up Where I Belong
- 28. Outed
- 29. Graduation
- 30. The Squadron
- 31. Flying Operations
- 32. The Threats Come
- 33. India and AWOL
- 34. Back in the Air
- 35. Contacts
- 36. The United States
- 37. My Return
- 38. Everything Crumbles
- 39. Opportunity
- 40. Back in Training
- 41. Asylum
- 42. What's Next
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Back Flip
- Back Cover
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 4, 2021).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781641603355
- 1641603356
- 9781641603379
- 1641603372
- Publisher Number:
- 99987891356
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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