The Sewing Circles of Herat: My Afghan Years

FAMILY TREE (#udc209215-0ae6-56b7-b219-be39c31c6daf)

Beginnings (#uae001bef-cb4f-5cb3-b228-d870f3c306b9)

The Taliban Torturer (#u60ac0ba8-b9a6-558d-913e-05596d5e5596)

Mullahs on Motorbikes (#u60b6b83a-f2ec-5e58-bb60-e6c8e48aaf19)

Inside the House of Knowledge (#u213e21f2-16d7-5bbb-a265-b8c2f6db8136)

The Royal Court in Exile (#litres_trial_promo)

The Sewing Circles of Herat (#litres_trial_promo)

The Secret of Glass (#litres_trial_promo)

Unpainting the Peacocks (#litres_trial_promo)

The Story of Abdullah (#litres_trial_promo)

Face to Face with the Taliban (#litres_trial_promo)

A Letter from Kabul (#litres_trial_promo)

KEEP READING (#litres_trial_promo)

BIBLIOGRAPHY (#litres_trial_promo)

INDEX (#litres_trial_promo)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (#litres_trial_promo)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR (#litres_trial_promo)

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER (#litres_trial_promo)

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (#ulink_d2ff6485-183a-57f7-852a-9e9e32b07788)

Illustrations in the text:

Bird of Peace, from UNICEF report, 2001. (#ulink_c4360e7f-c7da-5d32-ab0f-71c983b052c7)

Mullah Khalil Ahmed Hassani, 2001 © Justin Sutcliffe. (#ulink_6fd36c23-9afb-54d6-a359-67b3e90347fe)

Kandahar desert turned into battlefield, photographed by the author, 1988. (#ulink_7c997847-923d-5706-a593-cbdae66f6884)

Hamid Karzai, 1988. (#ulink_77b4493a-012d-52e6-a79e-2a64b66b3085)

A child’s charcoal drawing. (#ulink_d09346b5-20df-5ef1-97bb-bd2b0903ba04)

The author on a Soviet tank, 1988. (#ulink_16aac64c-c1de-55a5-8619-27240019430d)

Students in a madrassa. (#ulink_9c4575f0-0eea-5414-83c2-41b35f228f7e)

Afghan training camp. (#ulink_717029ad-63c7-5281-a197-3cc438e4e05a)

Motorcycling mullahs. (#ulink_92b541e4-11ee-516c-a558-c236a92f5e37)

Abdul Wasei. (#ulink_310510b1-700b-5e54-82ec-0e0344fbc8a0)

Ratmullah. (#ulink_2b920613-70ed-50ee-b02b-6e0cf65f549a)

Eating mud crabs. (#ulink_2d2774c6-ae4c-50ca-8b76-5afddf4cc15f)

Ration book belonging to a dead soldier, Jelalabad 1989. (#ulink_f10ae30d-340b-5b32-961d-4ba35e12de75)

Sami-ul-Haq next to his garden wall, Islamabad 2001. (#litres_trial_promo)

The Haqqania prospectus. (#litres_trial_promo)

Sami-ul-Haq in Islamabad, 2001 © Justin Sutcliffe. (#litres_trial_promo)

Princess Homaira © Julian Simmonds. (#litres_trial_promo)

King Zahir Shah with President John F. Kennedy © Julian Simmonds. (#litres_trial_promo)

King Habibullah © Julian Simmonds. (#litres_trial_promo)

Letter to Bhoutros Bhoutros Gali. (#litres_trial_promo)

King Zahir Shah and Queen Homaira in London, 1971 © Julian Simmonds. (#litres_trial_promo)

Herat in ruins. (#litres_trial_promo)

Ayubi, 2001 © Justin Sutcliffe. (#litres_trial_promo)

Begging for nan, 2001 © Justin Sutcliffe. (#litres_trial_promo)

Entrance to the Golden Needle, 2001 © Justin Sutcliffe. (#litres_trial_promo)

Literary circle President Ahmed Said Haghighi in the classroom of the Golden Needle, 2001 © Justin Sutcliffe. (#litres_trial_promo)

Zena and Leyla, 2001 © Justin Sutcliffe. (#litres_trial_promo)

The poet Khafash © Justin Sutcliffe. (#litres_trial_promo)

Child’s drawing, from ‘Lost Chances’ UNICEF report on Afghanistan, 2001. (#litres_trial_promo)

Egg game, 2001 © Justin Sutcliffe. (#litres_trial_promo)