Walking the precipice
Subtitle: witness to the rise of the Taliban
By: Barbara Bick.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9781558615861; 9781558615922
Subjects: Bick, Barbara; Taliban; Afghanistan -- History -- 1989-2001; Afghanistan -- History -- 2001-
Description: "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 desolation 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 attack 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"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Kabul, 1990; title: Against the Taliban, 1992-2001; title: Journey to the land of the Mujaheddin; title: Khoja Bahauddin; title: Fairzabad; title: The assassins; title: My Afghan family, 2002; title: Kabul redux, 2003.