NPR's Morning Edition recently interviewed Sarah Chayes, author of THEPUNISHMENT OF VIRTUE: INSIDE AFGHANISTAN AFTER THE TALIBAN. Chayes worked as a correspondent for NPR from 1997 to 2002 and then took a position running the aid agency Afghans for Civil Society. In 2006 she published this book, an account of how the Taliban had supposedly been conquered and then allowed to regroup and regain power. Her perspective as a former news person working to help stabilize a fragile traumatized country is extremely interesting, especially since she had unusual access to President Hamid Karzai, his government and even his family.
Other personal stories from Afghanistan at the library include COME BACK TO AFGHANISTAN: A CALIFORNIA TEENAGER'S STORY by Said Hyder Akbar and ZOYA'S STORY: AN AFGHAN WOMAN'S STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM by Zoya Follain.
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