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Index

9/11, x,
161
,
163
–78,
181
,
193–94

Abdel-Rahman, Omar (the blind sheikh),
166
,
168
–70

Abdullah, Morag Murray (pen name of Saira Luiza Elizabeth MacKenzie Shah),
19
–20,
27
,
35
,
52
,
64
,
81
,
212

Aciman, Andre,
160

Afghan food,
16
–17,
21
,
26
,
58
,
65
,
91
,
98
,
103

Afghan National Museum (in Kabul),
99

Afghan Women’s Fund,
200

Aharon, Sara Y.,
152
–54,
157
–59

Ahmad Shah Durrani,
115
–16

Al Aqsa Mosque,
172

Al-Qaeda,
168
,
170
–71,
173
–75,
210
–11

Ali, Ayaan Hirsi,
165

Alireza, Marianne,
56
–57

Amanullah Khan,
39
–40,
83
–84,
89
–90,
92
,
96
,
99
,
114
–16,
154
,
156
–57

American Civil Rights movement,
37
,
127

American Embassy,
73
–74,
95
,
119
,
123
–24,
142
,
167

American State Department,
119
,
123
,
165
,
168

American passports of American-born wives,
12
–13,
56
–57,
75
,
95
–96,
105
,
117

Amin, Qasim,
39

Angel, Marc,
149
,
160

anti-Semitism

in Afghanistan,
150
–51,
153
,
156
–59

Islamic World,
148
–50

Western World,
148

apostasy,
121

Arab Spring,
38
,
210
,
213

Armstrong, Sally,
42
,
195
–96

assassinations

Afghan royalty and,
83
,
115
–16,
155

of American politicians,
163
–64

bin Laden,
171

Egypt and,
167
–68

Soviet occupation and,
135
,
196

Taliban and,
193
,
211

war on terror and,
171
,
173

Ates, Seyran,
181
,
203

Ataturk, Kemal,
185

Ayatollah Khomeini,
33
,
114
,
150
,
167

Babrak, Karmal,
135

Baillie, Eleanor,
23
,
79
–80

Bala-Bagh palace,
90

Bamiyan,
80
–82

Bank-i-Milli,
154
,
156
–57

bazaar, xii,
10
–11,
22
–23,
37
,
48
–50,
63
,
156

Bin Laden, Mohammed bin Awad,
175

Bin Laden, Najwa,
166
,
177

Bin Laden, Omar,
166
,
175
–78

Bin Laden, Osama,
85
,
166
–78,
190

physical abuse of his sons,
175

Blatchford, Christine,
201

Bookseller of Kabul, The
(Seierstad),
190
–91

Bostom, Andrew,
149

Brauer, Erich,
153

Brydon, William,
90

Buddhism in Afghanistan, xi,
81
–82,
146

Buddhist statues in Afghanistan,
81

burqa (chowdry, Islamic veil, hijab, niqab), x,
13
,
20
,
22
–23,
35
,
37
–44,
49
,
83
–84,
114
,
132
,
151
,
184
,
195
,
198
–99,
209

Burton, Sir Richard,
148

Cairo, Egypt,
60
,
105
,
148
–49,
160
,
209
,
215

Caravans
(Michener),
125

Caught in the Crossfire
(Goodwin),
131
–32,
138

Chandrasekaran, Rajiv,
157
,
214

Chesler, Phyllis, honor killing studies, affidavits,
121
,
184
,
186
,
202
–4,
215
,
223

children, Afghan

begging and,
50
–51

child labor,
10
,
48
,
91
–92,
141
–42

civil wars, Afghan,
40
,
115
,
132

custody of children and Sharia law,
119
–20,
186
–87

Daoud Khan, Mohammed,
44
,
116
,
129
–30,
135
–36

Darwish, Nonie,
121
–22,
165

De Baer, Oliver Rudston,
158

diseases, Afghanistan and

dysentery,
63
–65,
90
,
98

Western travelers and,
63
–64

Doctors Without Borders (in Afghanistan),
211

Dunsheath, Joyce,
23
,
79
–80

Egypt,
39
,
158
,
160
,
165
,
167
–69,
182
,
209

Flaubert, Gustave,
69

Forbes, Rosita,
13
,
41
,
48
–49,
69
–70

forced conversion to Islam,
35
,
72
,
150
,
155

foreign wives,
12
–13,
34
–35,
49
,
54
–57,
72
–73,
95
–98,
102
,
119
–20

Fradkin, Hillel,
167

Gandahara School of Art,
81

gender apartheid, Islamic, ix, xi,
37
,
68
,
111
,
127
,
183
,
197
,
200
,
209
–10,
214
–15

Germans in Afghanistan,
16
,
54
,
96
–97,
109
,
156
–58,
160

see also
Nazis in Afghanistan

Goodwin, Jan,
131
–32,
138

Gregorian, Vartan,
146
–47

Gross, Nasrine,
194

Habibullah Khan, Emir,
52
,
83
,
116
,
150
–51

Hafizullah Amin,
135

Harlan, Josiah,
41

Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin,
132

Help the Afghan Children (HTAC),
193
–94

Herat,
28
–29,
92
,
134
,
150
,
153–56

Hezbollah,
168

hijab,
see
burqa

Hindus in Afghanistan,
152
–53,
155
–56,
159

Homosexuality and pederasty in Afghanistan, ix, xii,
188
,
212

honor killings

in Afghanistan, xii,
184
,
186
,
202

in Muslim world,
121
,
184
,
223

in Hindu world, in India,
223

in West,
201
–4,
215
,
223

Hosseini, Khaled,
115
,
188

Hsuan-Tang,
81

humanitarian workers in Afghanistan, xii,
193
,
211

Hunter, Edward,
12
,
40
–44,
49
,
87
,
99

Hussein, Saddam,
170
–71,
176
,
210

Italian cinema (1960s),
4

illiteracy in Afghanistan,
45
,
194

imperialism

Western and Soviet,
129
–30,
185
,
210

Islamic,
174

Iran,
114
,
150
,
208
–9

terrorism and,
168

see also
Hezbollah

Israel

hatred of, Jews and Jewish state, Islamist,
172
–73,
177
–78,
190
,
197
–98

immigration to, from Afghanistan,
35
,
151

lost tribes of, xiii,
4

Sirhan Sirhan and,
164

Istanbul, Turkey,
59
–60,
184
–85

Jasser, M. Zuhdi,
165

Jenkins, Robin,
12
–13

Jews in Afghanistan

history of,
145
–51

impoverishment of,
153
–54

Nazis and,
156
–59

persecution of,
150
–51,
153
,
156
–58

trade and,
152
–53

see also
Jews of Islam

Jews in Central Asia,
145
–46,
152

Jews of Islam,
146
,
148
,
159
–60

jihad,
131
,
165
,
168
–70,
172
–74,
177
,
197

Jones, Ann,
132

Kandahar,
23
,
82
,
114
,
188
,
199

Karzai, Hamid,
83
,
188
,
196
,
212

Kashani, Reuben,
150
,
153

Kennedy, John F.,
163
–64

Kennedy, Robert F.,
164

Khan, Genghis,
92
,
195

Khyber Pass,
140
–41

kidnapping in Afghanistan,
45
,
114
,
172
,
196

King and I, The,
3
,
118

King, Martin Luther Jr.,
164

King Mohammed Nadir Shah,
116
,
153
–55,
157

King Mohammed Zahir Shah,
104
,
116
,
130
,
136
,
155
,
157

Kipling, Rudyard,
111
–12

Kite Runner, The
(Hosseini),
115

see
Khaled Hosseini

Klass, Rosanne,
41
,
48
,
91
–92,
129
–30,
151
–52,
196

Kuchi (nomads),
49
–50,
64
–65

Konishi, Masatoshi,
38
–39

Koofi, Fawzia,
196

Lagnado, Lucette,
160
,
207

Lawrence, T. E.,
148

Legh-Jones, Alison,
55

Leonowens, Anna H.,
3

Lewis, Bernard,
146

Libby, Lewis,
167

London, England,
8

Loti, Pierre,
148

Lott, Emmeline,
61

Loya Jirga,
196

MacKenzie, Saira Elizabeth Luiza

see
Abdullah, Morag Murray

Mahmoody, Betty,
120
,
208
–9

Mahmoody, Bozorg,
209

Marlowe, Ann,
197

Martineau, Harriet,
60
–61

Mazar-i-Sharif,
75
,
82
,
124

medical care, limited access to (in Afghanistan),
64
–65,
101
,
195

Mercedes Benz,
13
,
135
,
157

Mernissi, Fatima,
61
–62,
128
,
150

Michaud, Roland and Sabrina,
80

Michener, James A.,
125

Millett, Kate,
114
,
199

Mirwais Baba,
82
,
115

misogyny,
71
,
143
,
190
–91,
198
,
200

modernization attempts in Afghanistan,
38
–40,
82
–83,
115
,
200
,
218

Mojadidi, Nafisa and Qudrat,
194–95

Mojadidi, Sediqua,
194

Mongols/Mongol invasion,
92
,
195

Mubarak, Hosni,
210

mujahidin/mujahideen,
131
–32,
138
,
213

Mula Agajan Cohen,
150
–51

Mula Yaakov Siman Tov,
157

Munich, Germany,
9
,
97

Muslim Brotherhood,
167
–70,
209

Nafisi, Azar,
150

Naggar, Jean,
160

Nazis (in Afghanistan),
153
,
155
–58,
160

Omar, Mullah Mohammed,
166

Osang-Reich, Anja,
164

Paghman,
90
–93,
215

Pakistan

Afghan refugees and,
130
,
194
–96,
197

Afghanistan and,
130
–31,
140
–42,
174

bin Laden and,
171

Hekmatyar and,
132

Taliban and,
211
,
217

treatment of women/girls in,
119
,
167
,
200
,
211
,
213

Pardoe, Julia,
60

Paris, France,
8
–9