Afghanistan : lifting the veil /
Afghanistan : lifting the veil /
[by the staff of] Reuters.
- xi, 260 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 25 cm
Foreword / Sebastian Junger -- The tormented state / Tom Heneghan -- The graveyard of invaders / Brian Williams, Mikhail Evstafiev, Sayed Salahuddin -- Life under the Taliban / Sayed Salahuddin -- The enigma of Osama bin Laden / Andrew Marshall -- The unseen war / Jane Macartney -- A nation of refugees / David Fox -- Behind the burqa / Rosalind Russell -- A cautious dawn / Paul Holmes.
Text and photographs by Reuters employees--including a former Soviet officer and an Afghan who stayed in Kabul--depict modern Afghanistan, the role of Osama bin Laden, the situation of women, and the War on Terrorism.
0130479519 9780130479518
2002025296
Taliban
Islamic fundamentalism--Afghanistan
Islam and politics--Afghanistan
Afghanistan--Politics and government--1973-1989
Afghanistan--Politics and government--1989-2001
DS371.3 / .A438 2002
958.1046
Foreword / Sebastian Junger -- The tormented state / Tom Heneghan -- The graveyard of invaders / Brian Williams, Mikhail Evstafiev, Sayed Salahuddin -- Life under the Taliban / Sayed Salahuddin -- The enigma of Osama bin Laden / Andrew Marshall -- The unseen war / Jane Macartney -- A nation of refugees / David Fox -- Behind the burqa / Rosalind Russell -- A cautious dawn / Paul Holmes.
Text and photographs by Reuters employees--including a former Soviet officer and an Afghan who stayed in Kabul--depict modern Afghanistan, the role of Osama bin Laden, the situation of women, and the War on Terrorism.
0130479519 9780130479518
2002025296
Taliban
Islamic fundamentalism--Afghanistan
Islam and politics--Afghanistan
Afghanistan--Politics and government--1973-1989
Afghanistan--Politics and government--1989-2001
DS371.3 / .A438 2002
958.1046