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Published Oct 2020
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by Parisa Reza
Published Dec 2016
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by Nadia Hashimi
Published Apr 2016
Read ReviewsMahmoud's passion for his wife Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she's ever known. But their happy, middle-class world—a life of education, work, and comfort—implodes when their country is engulfed in war, and the Taliban rises to power.
The Underground Girls of Kabul
by Jenny Nordberg
Published Jul 2015
Read ReviewsAn investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl.
by Qais Akbar Omar
Published Apr 2014
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by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
Published Mar 2013
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by Hisham Matar
Published Feb 2008
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by Farah Ahmedi, Tamim Ansary
Published Jun 2006
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by Yasmina Khadra
Published Apr 2005
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by Jhumpa Lahiri
Published Sep 2004
Read ReviewsLahiri enriches the themes that made her collection, The Interpreter of Maladies, an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations.
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