Afghanistan : a distant war / Robert Nickelsberg ; foreword by Jon Lee Anderson ; with contributions by Ahmad Nader Nadery, Steve Coll, Ahmed Rashid, Tim McGirk, Masood Khalili.

By:

Nickelsberg , Robert, photographer

Material type: Text

9783791348650
3791348655

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LOC classification:

DS371.412. N53 2013

Contents:

Contents: A Cold War ending—A land without law—Warlords, intriguers, spies—The Taliban ascendant—America’s Afghan war.

Summary: Summary: Noted documentary photographer Robert Nickelsberg’s photographs help bring into focus the day-to-day consequences of war, poverty, oppression, and political turmoil in Afghanistan. Since the attack on the World Trade Center, Afghanistan has evolved from a country few people thought twice about to a place that evokes our deepest emotions. TIME magazine photographer Robert Nickelsberg has been publishing his images of this distant yet all too familiar country since 1998, when he accompanied a group of Mujahideen across the border from Pakistan. This remarkable volume of photographs is accompanied by insightful texts from experts on Afghanistan and the Taliban. The images themselves are captioned with places, dates, and Nickelsberg’s own extensive commentary. Timely and important, the book serves as a reminder that Afghanistan and the rest of the world remain inextricably linked, no matter how much we long to distance ourselves from its painful realities.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Monograph	Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University	DS371.412.N53 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		3ACKU000377498

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Contents: A Cold War ending—A land without law—Warlords, intriguers, spies—The Taliban ascendant—America’s Afghan war.

Summary: Noted documentary photographer Robert Nickelsberg’s photographs help bring into focus the day-to-day consequences of war, poverty, oppression, and political turmoil in Afghanistan. Since the attack on the World Trade Center, Afghanistan has evolved from a country few people thought twice about to a place that evokes our deepest emotions. TIME magazine photographer Robert Nickelsberg has been publishing his images of this distant yet all too familiar country since 1998, when he accompanied a group of Mujahideen across the border from Pakistan. This remarkable volume of photographs is accompanied by insightful texts from experts on Afghanistan and the Taliban. The images themselves are captioned with places, dates, and Nickelsberg’s own extensive commentary. Timely and important, the book serves as a reminder that Afghanistan and the rest of the world remain inextricably linked, no matter how much we long to distance ourselves from its painful realities.

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