Ustad gul zaman biography of nancy
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Afghanistan's Islam: Escape Conversion figure out the Taliban
INTRODUCTION: AFGHANISTAN’S ISLAM
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2. Heath C.D. Tracker, “The Faith of depiction East crush Central Asia,” Bulletin get the picture the Toilet Rylands College Library recognize Manchester 78 (1996), pp. 129–42.OnHerat,seepp.131–34.
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The Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN)
It is 40 days since the historian, archivist and activist on behalf of Afghans, Nancy Hatch Dupree, died, aged 89. As a tribute to this remarkable woman, we are publishing two pieces. The first is an interview which Nancy gave in 2007 to Markus Hakansson for a book authored by Nancy and published by the Afghanistan Swedish Committee, which features 58 chronicles about Afghanistan. In this interview, Nancy tells how she came to Afghanistan and fell in love with the country and with her husband Louis. She describes the fifteen wonderful years they had, excavating archaeological sites and with her writing guide books. She tells of the 1978 coup, Louis’ imprisonment and there eventual exile to Pakistan where they set up a project to collect and collate information. The extract ends with her eventual return to Kabul. AAN will publish a second dispatch which will be a collection of tributes from people who knew Nancy.
Nancy Hatch Dupree moved back to the Afghan capital a few years after this interview took place. In 2013, she inaugurated the Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University in 2013 (six years after she secured initial funding for it of two million dollars). A description of the centre, which houses the now 100,000 document
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Tales from the Life of Bruce Wannell: Adventurer, Linguist, Orientalist (Sickle Moon Books for Eland Publishing) 190020925X, 9781900209250
Table of contents :
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHRONOLOGY
A STUDENT OF LANGUAGE AND LIFE
AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN, 1985-98
A MODERN BATTUTA
FREE-SCHOLAR, TRANSLATOR AND TEACHER
AMATEUR MUSICIAN AND PROFESSIONAL GUEST
DRAGOMAN BRUCE
LITERARY PARTNERSHIP
THREE FAREWELLS
AFTERWORD - Bruce's last performance
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Tales from the life of
Bruce Wannell Adventurery Linguist) Orientalist
Bruce \Vannell was the greatest Orientalist traveller of his generation: a Paddy Leigh Fermor of the East, a Kim for our time. He had lived through the Iranian Re\'olution, worked for a decade in the :-:orrh \Vest Frontier during the wars in Afghanistan, could transcribe the most complex Arabic calligraphy by sight and spoke Iranian and Afghan Persian with a dazzling, poetic fluency. His curious combination of talents - linguist, musician, translator and teacher - were duplicated by an international network of friendships with scholars, poets, spies, aidworkers, archaeologists, diplomats, artists and writers. Bruce could quote Hafcz from memory, rustic up a lethal cocktail, lose himself in Brahms, open any door, organise a concert within d