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...life than packaged triangular sandwiches and council taxes." Shah has exchanged these dreary hazards for more substantial risks. Last July, while filming a travel documentary in Pakistan shortly after finishing the book, he was arrested and held incommunicado for 16 days in military prisons. His sister, British journalist Saira Shah, flew to Pakistan and managed to free him. "I have a U.K. passport and a Muslim-sounding name," says the author, whose grandfather was Afghan, "and it was right after the London bombings, so they must have found me suspicious. It was horrible. They were torturing and killing people...
...Storyteller's Daughter, British-born Afghan Saira Shah is unable to deliver as much insight as Seierstad does into the culture of her "lost homeland." Shah's uneven account of her attempts to reconcile the enchanting Afghanistan of her exiled father's tales with her own harrowing encounters relies on clich?d Western stereotypes: the Taliban are evil oppressors, the mujahedin noble warriors. Few of her subjects come across as real?which is precisely what makes Seierstad's nuanced portraits so compelling. While traveling with her romanticized mujahedin, for example, Shah is devastated to learn that they have been selling...
...North House resident who ordered her ticketin July had the much coveted pass, but not a date.So after asking "about 100 boys" Saira Moini '87decided to advertise her plight at the HolyokeCenter 350th ticket office...
Omar Anwari is Cabinet minister to the last Afghan King, who was deposed in 1973. The three Anwari children are refractions of Omar's bitterness and fanatical loyalty. Mangal, a journalist, becomes a revolutionary. Saira, at once the most sophisticated and confused, shuttles uneasily between her own nation and the U.S., where she has been a Radcliffe student. Tor, the youngest, is a volatile, seething youth who receives his education in Moscow. This sibling rivalry is no mere mix in the Freudian crucible. Saira takes a Russian lover, Mangal is a lethal conniver, Tor is a black marketeer. Each child...
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