A passionate personal journey through two cultures in conflict
Shortly after militant Islamic terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, Tamim Ansary of San Francisco sent an e-mail to twenty friends, telling how the threatened U.S. reprisals against Afghanistan looked to him as an Afghan American. The message spread, and in a few days it had reached, and affected, millions of people-Afghans and Americans, soldiers and pacifists, conservative Christians and talk-show hosts; for the message, written in twenty minutes, was one Ansary had been writing all his life....
A passionate personal journey through two cultures in conflict
Shortly after militant Islamic terrorists destroyed the World Trade Cen...
Farah Ahmedi recounts her heartbreaking journey from war-torn Kabul to America in her New York Times bestselling inspirational memoir. Farah Ahmedi's "poignant tale of survival" (Chicago Tribune) chronicles her journey from war to peace. Equal parts tragedy and hope, determination and daring, Ahmedi's memoir delivers a remarkably vivid portrait of her girlhood in Kabul, where the sound of gunfire and the sight of falling bombs shaped her life and stole her family. She herself narrowly escapes death when she steps on a land mine. Eventually the war forces her to flee, first...
Farah Ahmedi recounts her heartbreaking journey from war-torn Kabul to America in her New York Times bestselling inspirational memoir. Fara...
Die vergessene Geschichte der WeltJahrhundertelang war die islamische Welt das Zentrum der Zivilisation. Heute aber wird der Islam viel zu oft auf Islamismus und Terrorismus reduziert, scheinen wir dauerhaft gefangen in einer Konfrontationshaltung: der Westen gegen den Islam, wir gegen die. Der Hauptgrund fr die gegenwrtigen Probleme liegt fr Tamim Ansary in der Unkenntnis der islamischen Vergangenheit und der Missachtung ihrer Bedeutung auf westlicher Seite. Detailreich und spannend, mitreiend und lebendig zeigt er Weltgeschichte aus einer ganz anderen Perspektive: der Sicht der islamischen...
Die vergessene Geschichte der WeltJahrhundertelang war die islamische Welt das Zentrum der Zivilisation. Heute aber wird der Islam viel zu oft auf Isl...
