Travelogue & Memoirs
Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban
An American reporter's chilling account of being kidnapped and imprisoned by the Taliban, in the no-man's-land between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Jere Van Dyk was on the wrong side of the border. He and ... more
However Tall the Mountain: A Dream, Eight Girls, and a Journey Home
Born in Kabul, Awista Ayub escaped with her family to Connecticut in 1981, when she was two years old, but her connection to her heritage remained strong. An athlete her whole life, she was inspired to ... more
Born in Kandahar in 1978, Sultan fled to the United States at age five with her family. Raised in Brooklyn and Flushing, Queens, Sultan saw her life change when she was married by arrangement at the young ... more
Diario da Kabul - Appunti da una citta sulla linea del fronte
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Mumbai To Mecca: A Pilgrimage to the Holy Sites of Islam
Ilija Trojanow was born in Bulgaria in 1965. After fleeing his homeland via Yugoslavia and Italy, he was granted political asylum in Germany. He spent ten years in Kenya and five years in Mumbai, before ... more
