Overview
An āenthrallingā memoir of a woman who risked her life to help a people under siege and a country caught between freedom and oppression (Publishers Weeklyāstarred review).
In 1990, sixty-five-year-old activist and grandmother Barbara Bick traveled with a womenās delegation to Afghanistan for what she thought would be her last great adventure. Instead, Bick forged deep friendships with her Afghan hostsāonly to watch in horror as the Taliban took over most of the country and instituted fiercely anti-woman policies.
Eleven years later, at age seventy-six, Bick returned to Afghanistan, travelling to the region controlled by the Northern Alliance, an anti-Taliban militia. In early September 2001, Bick walked out of a compound where militia leader Ahmad Shah Massoud was also staying. Minutes later, Taliban infiltrators assassinated Massoudāa prelude to the al Qaeda attacks on the United States.
As the US government became deeply involved in Afghanistan, Bick decided to return once again to see how women were faring under the new government. In 2004, she was one of the few Western women able to bring years of experience to understanding the countryās trauma.
Walking the PrecipiceĀ gives new insight into the people, politics, and culture of a country that is on everyoneās radarāfor its beauty, and for its tragic place history.
This book title, Walking the Precipice (Witness to the Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan), ISBN: 9781558615861, by Barbara Bick, published by The Feminist Press at CUNY (January 1, 2009) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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