My Life with the Taliban

Abdul Salam Zaeef; Translated from the Pashto and Edited and Introduced by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn; Foreword by Barnett R. Rubin

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Paper, 360 pages, 1 b&w illus. / 5 maps
ISBN: 978-0-231-70149-5
$19.95

January, 2010
Cloth, 360 pages, 1 b&w illus. / 5 maps
ISBN: 978-0-231-70148-8
$29.95

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• Read a review from Current Intelligence
• Selected by Jihadology as a top book of 2010.

Related Subjects

• Islam
• Middle East Studies
• Security Studies
• South Asian Studies

About the Author

Abdul Salam Zaeef was born in southern Afghanistan in 1968 and played a role in many of his country’s major events. He fought against the Soviets in the 1980s, undertook administrative positions within the Taliban in the 1990s, and became a public critic of the U.S.-backed Karzai government following his release from Guantanamo prison in 2005. He lives in Kabul. Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn are researchers and writers permanently based in Kandahar. They have worked in Afghanistan since 2006, focusing on the Taliban insurgency and the history of southern Afghanistan over the past four decades. Their research extends to other Muslim countries as well, and they are regular contributors on Afghanistan to major western news channels.

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