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The Resource The lovers : Afghanistan's Romeo & Juliet : the true story of how they defied their families and escaped an honor killing, Rod Nordland

The lovers : Afghanistan's Romeo & Juliet : the true story of how they defied their families and escaped an honor killing, Rod Nordland

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"An astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about women's rights in the Muslim world. Zakia and Ali were from different tribes, but they grew up on neighboring farms in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. By the time they were young teenagers, Zakia, strikingly beautiful and fiercely opinionated, and Ali, shy and tender, had fallen in love. Defying their families, sectarian differences, cultural conventions, and Afghan civil and Islamic law, they ran away together only to live under constant threat from Zakia's large and vengeful family, who have vowed to kill her to restore the family's honor. They are still in hiding. Despite a decade of American good intentions, women in Afghanistan are still subjected to some of the worst human rights violations in the world. Rod Nordland, then the Kabul bureau chief of the New York Times, had watched these abuses unfold for years when he came upon Zakia and Ali, and has not only chronicled their plight, but has also shepherded them from danger. The Lovers will do for women's rights generally what Malala's story did for women's education. It is an astonishing story about self-determination and the meaning of love that illustrates, as no policy book could, the limits of Western influence on fundamentalist Islamic culture and, at the same time, the need for change."--provided by Amazon.com
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xviii, 362 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Contents
  • Under the Gaze of the Buddhas
  • Dead Father's Daughter
  • Zakia Makes Her Move
  • A Rabbi Among the Mullahs
  • A Beautiful Place to Hide
  • Mystery Benefactor
  • Honor Hunters
  • The Irreconcilables
  • Birds in a Cage
  • Reluctant Celebrities
  • Back to the Hindu Kush
  • Mullah Mohammad Jan
  • In the Land of the Bottom-Feeders
  • A Dog with No Name
Isbn
9780062378828
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The lovers : Afghanistan's Romeo & Juliet : the true story of how they defied their families and escaped an honor killing
Title
The lovers
Title remainder
Afghanistan's Romeo & Juliet : the true story of how they defied their families and escaped an honor killing
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Rod Nordland
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Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"An astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about women's rights in the Muslim world. Zakia and Ali were from different tribes, but they grew up on neighboring farms in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. By the time they were young teenagers, Zakia, strikingly beautiful and fiercely opinionated, and Ali, shy and tender, had fallen in love. Defying their families, sectarian differences, cultural conventions, and Afghan civil and Islamic law, they ran away together only to live under constant threat from Zakia's large and vengeful family, who have vowed to kill her to restore the family's honor. They are still in hiding. Despite a decade of American good intentions, women in Afghanistan are still subjected to some of the worst human rights violations in the world. Rod Nordland, then the Kabul bureau chief of the New York Times, had watched these abuses unfold for years when he came upon Zakia and Ali, and has not only chronicled their plight, but has also shepherded them from danger. The Lovers will do for women's rights generally what Malala's story did for women's education. It is an astonishing story about self-determination and the meaning of love that illustrates, as no policy book could, the limits of Western influence on fundamentalist Islamic culture and, at the same time, the need for change."--provided by Amazon.com
Biography type
collective biography
Cataloging source
YDXCP
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Nordland, Rod
Dewey number
958.104/70922
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
  • plates
Index
index present
LC call number
DS371.42
LC item number
.N67 2016
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Man-woman relationships
  • Afghanistan
  • Women
  • Afghanistan
Label
The lovers : Afghanistan's Romeo & Juliet : the true story of how they defied their families and escaped an honor killing, Rod Nordland
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-346) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Under the Gaze of the Buddhas -- Dead Father's Daughter -- Zakia Makes Her Move -- A Rabbi Among the Mullahs -- A Beautiful Place to Hide -- Mystery Benefactor -- Honor Hunters -- The Irreconcilables -- Birds in a Cage -- Reluctant Celebrities -- Back to the Hindu Kush -- Mullah Mohammad Jan -- In the Land of the Bottom-Feeders -- A Dog with No Name
Control code
ocn892700792
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xviii, 362 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9780062378828
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Other physical details
illustrations (chiefly color), map
System control number
(OCoLC)892700792
Label
The lovers : Afghanistan's Romeo & Juliet : the true story of how they defied their families and escaped an honor killing, Rod Nordland
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-346) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Under the Gaze of the Buddhas -- Dead Father's Daughter -- Zakia Makes Her Move -- A Rabbi Among the Mullahs -- A Beautiful Place to Hide -- Mystery Benefactor -- Honor Hunters -- The Irreconcilables -- Birds in a Cage -- Reluctant Celebrities -- Back to the Hindu Kush -- Mullah Mohammad Jan -- In the Land of the Bottom-Feeders -- A Dog with No Name
Control code
ocn892700792
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xviii, 362 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9780062378828
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Other physical details
illustrations (chiefly color), map
System control number
(OCoLC)892700792

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