Forbidden lessons in a Kabul guesthouse :
Sadeed, Suraya.
Forbidden lessons in a Kabul guesthouse : the true story of a woman who risked everything to bring hope to Afghanistan / Suraya Sadeed, with Damien Lewis. - 1st ed. - New York : Voice/Hyperion, c2011. - viii, 280 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Prologue: Lessons by lamplight -- pt. 1. Finding hope in a lawless land (1993-1995) -- Help the Afghan Children -- The beginning -- The camel road -- The devil's flowers -- The edge of darkness -- The widow camp -- City of ghosts -- A promise to Fatima -- pt. 2. Under the iron fist of the Taliban (1996-2001) -- The tree of amputations -- It is what it is -- Stoned and flying out here -- The day the Earth turned angry -- Of life and love -- Young enough to wed -- New York comes to Kabul -- Singing with the Taliban -- The kindness of strangers -- pt. 3. Battling for hearts and minds (September 2001-present) -- The darkest day -- The wrong side of the border -- The boy who killed the American -- The gift of learning -- Epilogue: Drop by drop a river forms -- Afterword.
Publisher's Weekly, April 2011 Booklist, June 2011 Kirkus Review, May 2011 Publisher's Weekly Booklist Kirkus Review
Suraya Sadeed chronicles her efforts to bring hope and relief to the refugees, women, and orphans of Afghanistan, describing how she has risked her own life to help the war-torn country and create the organization Help the Afghan Children.
Adult Follett Library Resources Adult
9781401341312 (trade) 1401341314
2010053485
Sadeed, Suraya.
Help the Afghan Children (Organization)
Help the Afghan Children (Organization)
Women social reformers--Afghanistan--Biography.
Social reformers--Afghanistan--Biography.
Afghan American women--Biography.
Children--Social conditions.--Afghanistan
Afghan War, 2001---Social aspects.
Women social reformers--Biography.
Social reformers--Biography.
Afghan American women--Biography.
Children--Social conditions.--Afghanistan
Afghan War, 2001---Social aspects.
Afghanistan--History--2001---Biography.
Afghanistan--History--1989-2001--Biography.
Afghanistan--Social conditions--20th century.
Afghanistan--Social conditions--21st century.
Afghanistan--History--Biography.
Afghanistan--Social conditions.
DS371.43.S23 / A3 2011
958.104/7/092 B
Forbidden lessons in a Kabul guesthouse : the true story of a woman who risked everything to bring hope to Afghanistan / Suraya Sadeed, with Damien Lewis. - 1st ed. - New York : Voice/Hyperion, c2011. - viii, 280 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Prologue: Lessons by lamplight -- pt. 1. Finding hope in a lawless land (1993-1995) -- Help the Afghan Children -- The beginning -- The camel road -- The devil's flowers -- The edge of darkness -- The widow camp -- City of ghosts -- A promise to Fatima -- pt. 2. Under the iron fist of the Taliban (1996-2001) -- The tree of amputations -- It is what it is -- Stoned and flying out here -- The day the Earth turned angry -- Of life and love -- Young enough to wed -- New York comes to Kabul -- Singing with the Taliban -- The kindness of strangers -- pt. 3. Battling for hearts and minds (September 2001-present) -- The darkest day -- The wrong side of the border -- The boy who killed the American -- The gift of learning -- Epilogue: Drop by drop a river forms -- Afterword.
Publisher's Weekly, April 2011 Booklist, June 2011 Kirkus Review, May 2011 Publisher's Weekly Booklist Kirkus Review
Suraya Sadeed chronicles her efforts to bring hope and relief to the refugees, women, and orphans of Afghanistan, describing how she has risked her own life to help the war-torn country and create the organization Help the Afghan Children.
Adult Follett Library Resources Adult
9781401341312 (trade) 1401341314
2010053485
Sadeed, Suraya.
Help the Afghan Children (Organization)
Help the Afghan Children (Organization)
Women social reformers--Afghanistan--Biography.
Social reformers--Afghanistan--Biography.
Afghan American women--Biography.
Children--Social conditions.--Afghanistan
Afghan War, 2001---Social aspects.
Women social reformers--Biography.
Social reformers--Biography.
Afghan American women--Biography.
Children--Social conditions.--Afghanistan
Afghan War, 2001---Social aspects.
Afghanistan--History--2001---Biography.
Afghanistan--History--1989-2001--Biography.
Afghanistan--Social conditions--20th century.
Afghanistan--Social conditions--21st century.
Afghanistan--History--Biography.
Afghanistan--Social conditions.
DS371.43.S23 / A3 2011
958.104/7/092 B