They are regular commentators on major Western news channels and editors of the acclaimed memoir of Abdul Salam Zaeef, My Life With the Taliban.Faisal Devji is university reader in modern South Asian history at St. Antony's College, Oxford University, and the author of The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics.. Their research focuses on the
They are regular commentators on major Western news channels and editors of the acclaimed memoir of Abdul Salam Zaeef, My Life With the Taliban.Faisal Devji is university reader in modern South Asian history at St. Antony's College, Oxford University, and the author of The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics.
. Their research focuses on the Taliban insurgency and the history of southern Afghanistan over the past four decades.Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn are researche
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- Author : Brand: Columbia University Press
- Rating : 4.50 (153 Vote)
- Publish : 2015-8-8
- Format : Hardcover
- Pages : 176 Pages
- Asin : 0231704046
- Language : English
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