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Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan
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Soon after the bombs stopped falling on Kabul, award-winning journalist and women's rights activist Ann Jones set out for the shattered city. This is her trenchant report from the city where she spent the next four winters working in humanitarian aid. Investigating the city's prison for women, retraining Kabul's long-silenced English teachers, Jones enters the lives of everyday women and men and reveals through small events some big disjunctions: between the new Afghan "democracy" and the still-entrenched warlords, between American promises and performance, between what's boasted of and what is. At once angry, profound, and starkly beautiful, Kabul in Winter brings alive the people and day-to-day life of a place whose future depends upon our own.
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 958.104
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Metropolitan Books
Manufacturer: Metropolitan Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2006-03-21
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date: 2006-03-21
Studio: Metropolitan Books
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Summary: Required reading
Comment: Apparently I took away somewhat different conclusions than did some of your reviewers. The book starts out a little slowly because there is a synopsis of Afghani history. One should definitely wade through it.
The author went to Kabul after the war against the Taliban in order to help get education for women up and running. Besides being a teacher, Ann Jones is a reporter, and she has done a lot of research for this book in addition to the actual time she spent teaching.
Having been one of the horrified people who wrote letters to Jimmy Carter when we supplied Stinger missiles to the Mujahadeen, I am well aware that both American political parties contributed to Afghani problems. Studying some of the history is required in order for us to pick our way gradually out of this flawed country while still leaving it better than we found it.
To blame the imperial powers (Russia, the US and Britain)for the problems in Afghanistan is way too easy. The book makes clear that there is a corrosive element to Afghani culture that needs to be gently excised as we help build schools and plant orchards. (We do plan to plant orchards, don't we?)
This book should be required reading for all policy makers from Obama and Biden to the State Department.
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Summary: A little over the top
Comment: Another interesting read, but her constant interjections on the US and US FP is not only annoying but often wrong. She often appears hypocritical. Case in point, she is a contractor (true a volunteer) that is why she is there. Yet she doesn't see the contradiction in her complaining about using expats, while she is an expat.
- Another problem is what appears to be a lack of ignorance for the Development field in general and her misunderstanding of terms such as grass roots. She seems to be bothered that no one would fund her teaching programs, which she claims is bottom-up, and she seems confused on the difference between "humanitarian assistance" and "development assistance."
Her education program is not humanitarian assistance at all nor is it a bottom-up approach. Its a development project she is shopping around for a buyer, there were no Afghans involved in its planning, nor was it a humanitarian program (shelter, food, etc). That doesn't mean it may be a good idea, but nevertheless its frustrating at what seems to be her confusion.
But even with all these annoying points. I still enjoyed her writing style and her descriptive depiction of life in successive winters in Kabul.
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Summary: Reality on the Ground
Comment: Ann Taylor's "Winter in Kabul" is a straight forward - straight shooting account of her days working in Kabul in 2002. She is brutally honest about what has and has not been accomplished in that country. Looking through her eyes, we see the kindness of the people she worked with in stark contrast to the political system of Afghanistan. It's a must read for those who appreciate truth pre-spin.
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Summary: Was hopeful and was let down
Comment: This book held so much potential in my eyes. I am not a feminist but I was very interested in the rights of Afghani women in post-Taliban Afghanistan. I found that this book was not the book for me. The author quoted a favorite author of mine (Ahmed Rashid) quite a bit but she seemed to almost be "misquoting" him. That was sad. He is an excellent source. Read "Taliban" if you would like a good history of the Taliban up 2000 AD. But beyond this, the author's bias was so incredibly thick, it was hard to wade through this book. What could have been picked out of this text as informational was drug down by her bias.
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Summary: Choking on the Lies
Comment: This book is so full of bias and bigotry that I couldn't decide whether to laugh or vomit. The author has an obvious anti-American, anti-male, and anti-aid organization bias that transcends any attempt made to provide accurate information.
I am currently living and working in the same areas as the author mentioned, in fact I eat in the same cafeteria. I've yet to see an Afghan get treated with anything but respect by soldiers, guards, and contractors. The author might be so educated that she simply cannot grasp the basics of the current situation in Afghanistan.
If she wants to pass on her "pie in the sky" ideals, then maybe she should consider getting grounded in the facts rather than twist and contort every situation to conform to her worldview.
If you like reading venomous words full of lies, then you'll love this book. Otherwise, take it off your wish list.
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