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Noori, Arsalan, 1987- author.
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Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Evacuation of civilians.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Influence.
Refugees -- Afghanistan -- Biography.
Afghans -- Foreign countries -- Biography.
Afghanistan -- Biography.
Afghanistan -- Civilization -- Western influences.
Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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The last days of the...
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The last days of the Afghan republic : a doomed evacuation twenty years in the making / Arsalan Noori and Noah Coburn.
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Noori, Arsalan, 1987- author.
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2023]
Subjects
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Evacuation of civilians.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Influence.
Refugees -- Afghanistan -- Biography.
Afghans -- Foreign countries -- Biography.
Afghanistan -- Biography.
Afghanistan -- Civilization -- Western influences.
Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9781538178089 (hardcover) :
1538178087 (hardcover)
Description:
xv, 313 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
The last flight out of HKIA -- The final days -- A failed intervention? -- A land of opportunity? A contracted war -- A divided country -- A growing distance -- Young politics -- Special immigrants -- Willful ignorance -- The second coming of the Taliban -- Insecurity and failed diplomacy -- The challenges of resettlement -- Lawyers, travel agents, and traffickers -- The final days of the American occupation -- Why wasn't it fixed? -- Priority 2 -- The collapse -- After August 15 -- Chaos -- In Afghanistan, it's still who you know -- Unaccompanied minors -- The women who remained behind -- Tea with the Taliban -- Airplane hangars -- Making compromises -- Parole -- California -- Kabul.
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It is difficult to overstate the chaos of August 2021 for many of those in Afghanistan, particularly those who had worked closely with the international community there. In a matter of days, U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan and an insurgency threw out a government the international community had spent 20 years and billions of dollars supporting. A government that claimed to stand for women's rights, freedom of the press, education, and a litany of other ideals, was replaced by one that did not allow girls to attend secondary school. The world watched for two weeks as crowds rushed the airport, bodies fell from planes, a suicide bomber killed civilians and soldiers, and a baby was handed to a Marine over a barbed wire wall. The agony of lives so clearly destroyed, as people tried to flee their homeland with little to nothing, felt like images seen in the wake of natural disasters. But this was not a natural disaster. It was completely avoidable. Part memoir and part history, The Last Days of the Afghan Republic tells this story through the experiences of Arsalan, Fatima, Zeinab, and Najeeb: a scholar, a doctor, a student, and a translator. These young men and women had bought into the promise of the international intervention, that if they studied, worked hard, and believed in democracy and human rights, Afghanistan could become a new country. Their lives also tell the story of Afghanistan over the past thirty years. They recount, from the ground up, the political decisions on the American side that led to the "forever war," the way that Afghan political partners squandered opportunities, and the ways in which the U.S. presence unevenly reshaped Afghan society.--Provided by publisher.
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Hawaii State Library
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