My Life With the Taliban - Hardcover

Zaeef, Abdul Salam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231701489 ISBN 13: 9780231701488

Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr, 2010

Synopsis

My Life with the Taliban An autobiography of Abdul Salam Zaeef, a senior former member of the Taliban. It offers a counter-narrative to the standard accounts of Afghanistan since 1979. Full description

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Review:

'The only detailed insider account of the Taliban is a memoir by Abdul Salam Zaeef, the movement's former ambassador to Pakistan. Zaeef is no spokesman for Mullah Omar and the Quetta shura. But My Life with the Taliban usefully shows that its leaders saw themselves as nationalists, reformers and liberators rather than Islamist ideologues.' --London Review of Books

'The first book from inside the Taliban could not be better timed. Abdul Salam Zaeef was one of the founding members of the group and held senior positions within it, ending up as ambassador to Pakistan.' --Sunday Times

'Spies, generals and ambassadors will pounce on this book, poring over its pages for clues to a way out of the Afghan morass.' --Sunday Telegraph

About the Author:

Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef was the Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan during 9/11. He was subsequently imprisoned in Guantanamo before being released without charge. This is his story. Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn are researchers and writers permanently based in Kandahar. In 2006 they founded AfghanWire.com, an organisation and website that pursues awareness of Afghani issues and opinions largely unrecognised by the international media.

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0231701489
• ISBN 13: 9780231701488
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 331
• Editor: Strick Van Linschoten Alex