A passionate personal journey through two cultures in conflict

West of Kabul East of New York

Biographies & Memoirs

Tamim Ansary

Community & Culture

FSG.

Snapshots is a collection of personal narratives and poems by 15 Afghan American writers from the San Francisco Bay Area and other parts of California. The first collection of its kind, this book gives a subtle glimpse of a new immigrant community through the eyes of its first American generation. The Afghan American community was born some 30 years ago, after catastrophe shattered Afghanistan: a revolution, the Soviet invasion, a civil war, and finally the rise of the Taliban, a string of events that claimed over a million lives and drove as many as ten million Afghans into homeless exile. Some hundred thousand of those refugees made their way to America and a good many settled in California; where the largest Afghan community outside Asia coalesced in the East Bay suburbs of San Francisco. Now, the first generation of Afghan Americans has come of age; most were born here; others left Afghanistan as very young children. For this generation, growing up in the shadow of their parents tragedy, Afghanistan is the dream that permeates every waking moment. In their poems and narratives, you can see this dream of Afghanistan twining with the reality of America to form a new thread in the American fabric.

Snapshots: This Afghan American Life

Yalda Asmatey

Kajakai Press

West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American History

The day after the World Trade Center was destroyed, Tamim Ansary sent an anguished e-mail to twenty friends discussing the attack from his perspective as an Afghan American. The message reached millions.Born to an Afghan father and American mother, Ansary grew up in the intimate world of Afghan family life. When he emigrated to San Francisco, he believed he'd left Afghan culture behind forever. But at the height of the Iranian Revolution, he took a harrowing journey through the Islamic world to rediscover his roots. In the years that followed, he struggled to unite his divided self and to find a place in his imagination where his Afghan and American identities might meet.Here in his own words is one man's personal journey through two cultures in conflict.

West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story

Memoirs

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Blackstone Audiobooks

The Western narrative of world history largely omits a whole civilization. Destiny Disrupted tells the history of the world from the Islamic point of view, and restores the centrality of the Muslim perspective, ignored for a thousand years. In Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world history as it looks from a new perspective: with the evolution of the Muslim community at the center. His story moves from the lifetime of Mohammed through a succession of far-flung empires, to the tangle of modern conflicts that culminated in the events of 9/11. He introduces the key people, events, ideas, legends, religious disputes, and turning points of world history, imparting not only what happened but how it is understood from the Muslim perspective. He clarifies why two great civilizations-Western and Muslim-grew up oblivious to each other, what happened when they intersected, and how the Islamic world was affected by its slow recognition that Europe-a place it long perceived as primitive-had somehow hijacked destiny. With storytelling brio, humor, and evenhanded sympathy to all sides of the story, Ansary illuminates a fascinating parallel to the world narrative usually heard in the West. Destiny Disrupted offers a vital perspective on world conflicts many now find so puzzling.

Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

PublicAffairs

Captivate reluctant readers with tales of high drama and adventure! Engages all students with easy-to-read, high-interest stories Builds reading comprehension, critical-thinking, and vocabulary skills Teacher's guides available separately Set includes one each: Crimebusters, Super Sleuths, Vanished!, Unlikely Heroes, Young Heroes, Courages Creatures, Legendary Creatures, Bizarre Creatures, Creepy Creatures, Amazing Creatures, Unexplained Events, Mysterious Places, History's Mysteries, Scary Tales, Urban Legends, Escape!, Survivors, Close Calls, Nature's Wrath, and Disasters

Just Imagine! Library Set

Reference

Walch Staff

Words, Language & Grammar

J.Weston Walch

Henry Carter's Escape

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Educators Pub Svc Inc

Three years after the 1841 British occupation of Kabul, news of the invasion still hasn't reached the remote village of Char Bagh. Here, the biggest excitement of the season is a mysterious vagabond who has wandered onto a nearby hillside. Is he a madman? Perhaps. But he just might be a God-crazed madman, a malang, a man with the power to channel miracles. And indeed, he does soon begin to transform the lives of the villagers-the brooding headman Ibrahim, his djinn-haunted wife Soraya, the headman's charismatic sister-in-law, the widowed Khadija... But the isolation of Char Bagh is about to end. The Widow's Husband, an epic work of historical fiction, is the first novel to tell the story of British imperialism from the Afghan side.

The Widow's Husband

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Vox Nova

In a collaboration between ABC's Good Morning America and Simon &amp; Schuster, the media giants have teamed up to conduct a nationwide search to find a great American memoir by an as yet unnamed author, drawing on a contest in which contestants submit a six-hundred-word essay of their life story. 175,000 first printing.

The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky

Farah Ahmedi

Simon Spotlight Entertainment

Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes

Until about 1800, the West and the Islamic realm were like two adjacent, parallel universes, each assuming itself to be the center of the world while ignoring the other. As Europeans colonized the globe, the two world histories intersected and the Western narrative drove the other one under. The West hardly noticed, but the Islamic world found the encounter profoundly disrupting. This book reveals the parallel other narrative of world history to help us make sense of today s world conflicts. Ansary traces the history of the Muslim world from pre-Mohammedan days through 9/11, introducing people, events, empires, legends, and religious disputes, both in terms of what happened and how it was understood and interpreted.

History

World

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