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Walking the Precipice : Witness to the Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan by Bick, Barbara is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Walking the Precipice : Witness to the Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan about?
__Walking the Precipice__ gives a succinct, readable account through a woman’s eyes of the rise of the Taliban in war-torn Afghanistan. This is a personal report about a country at the heart of the “War on Terror.” In 1990, activist and grandmother Barbara Bick, age sixty-five, traveled with a women’s delegation to Afghanistan for what she thought would be her last great adventure. Instead, while the Mujahideen shelled Kabul, Bick forged deep friendships with her Afghan hosts. In the ensuing years, she watched with horror as the Taliban took over Afghanistan and instituted its fiercely anti-woman policies. In 2001, Bick returned to Afghanistan, this time to even more dangerous terrain: the region dominated by the Northern Alliance, the anti-Taliban militia. She was their guest at a compound where Ahmad Shah Massoud, their leader, was also staying, and was there on September 9 when Taliban infiltrators assassinated him prior to the al Qaeda attacks on the United States. Bick returned to Afghanistan one last time, in 2004, to see how women were faring under the new government. __Walking the Precipice__ gives new insight into the people, politics, and culture of a country that should
Who reads Walking the Precipice : Witness to the Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Bick, Barbara
- Publisher
- The Feminist Press at CUNY
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781558619197
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Science, History
- Rating
- 3.86 / 5 (7 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14