In My Father's Country An Afghan Woman Defies Her Fate

Name: In My Father's Country An Afghan Woman Defies Her Fate
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ISBN: 9780307884947

ISBN-10: 0307884945

ISBN-13: 9780307884947

Edition: 2012

Authors: Saima Wahab

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Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, at age three Saima Wahab watched while her father was arrested and taken from their home by the KGB. She would never see him again. When she was fifteen an uncle who lived in Portland, Oregon brought her to America. Having to learn an entire new language, she nonetheless graduated from high school in three years and went on to earn a bachelor's degree. In 2004 she signed on with a defense contractor to work as an interpreter in Afghanistan, never realizing that she would blaze the trail for a new kind of diplomacy, earning the trust of both high-ranking U.S. army officials and Afghan warlords alike. When she arrived in Afghanistan in the winter of…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/24/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Saima Wahab was born in Afghanistan, went to Pakistan as a refugee, and moved to the United States as a teenager. Since then she has become on of the only Pashtun female translators in the world and, among other consequent roles, has returned to Afghanistan to work as a cultural advisor with the U.S. Army.