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Come Back to Afghanistan by Said Hyder Akbar and Susan Burton

June 25, 2012 by Christina

Nonfiction — print. Bloomsbury, 2005. 338 pgs. Purchased. Subtitled “Trying to Rebuild a Country with My Father, My Brother, My One-Eyed Uncle, Bearded Tribesmen, and President Karzai”, Akbar’s memoir builds on two radio documentaries he produced for “This American Life” about his trips to Afghanistan after 9/11. Akbar’s father sold his business in Oakland and left for Afghanistan to become President Hamid Karzai’s press secretary and, later, the governor of Kunar, a rural province he and his wife emigrated from […]

Categories: 2012 Reads, Middle East, Nonfiction • Tags: Said Hyder Akbar, Susan Burton

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