The Sewing Circles of Herat: My Afghan Years. Christina Lamb

The Secret of Glass

       Unpainting the Peacocks

       The Story of Abdullah

       Face to Face with the Taliban

       A Letter from Kabul

       KEEP READING

       BIBLIOGRAPHY

       INDEX

       ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       ABOUT THE AUTHOR

       ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

       LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

       Illustrations in the text:

       Bird of Peace, from UNICEF report, 2001.

       Mullah Khalil Ahmed Hassani, 2001 © Justin Sutcliffe.

       Kandahar desert turned into battlefield, photographed by the author, 1988.

       Hamid Karzai, 1988.

       A child’s charcoal drawing.

       The author on a Soviet tank, 1988.

       Students in a madrassa.

       Afghan training camp.

       Motorcycling mullahs.

       Abdul Wasei.

       Ratmullah.

       Eating mud crabs.

       Ration book belonging to a dead soldier, Jelalabad 1989.

       Sami-ul-Haq next to his garden wall, Islamabad 2001.

       The Haqqania prospectus.

       Sami-ul-Haq in Islamabad, 2001 © Justin Sutcliffe.

       Princess Homaira © Julian Simmonds.

       King Zahir Shah with President John F. Kennedy © Julian Simmonds.

       King Habibullah © Julian Simmonds.

       Letter to Bhoutros Bhoutros Gali.

       King Zahir Shah and Queen Homaira in London, 1971 © Julian Simmonds.

       Herat in ruins.

       Ayubi, 2001 © Justin Sutcliffe.

       Begging for nan, 2001 © Justin Sutcliffe.

       Entrance to the Golden Needle, 2001 © Justin Sutcliffe.

       Literary circle President Ahmed Said Haghighi in the classroom of the Golden Needle, 2001 © Justin Sutcliffe.

       Zena and Leyla, 2001 © Justin Sutcliffe.

       The poet Khafash © Justin Sutcliffe.

       Child’s drawing, from ‘Lost Chances’ UNICEF report on Afghanistan, 2001.

       Egg game, 2001 © Justin Sutcliffe.

       Cockfighting © Witold Krassowski/Network.

       Afghan boys with missiles © PA News.

       Sultan Hamidy’s business card.

       Ismael Khan, 2001 © Justin Sutcliffe.

       ‘Be a Second Marco Polo, Fly ARIANA’, 2001 © Justin Sutcliffe.

       Ayubi’s letter to the author, 2001.

       The author in Wasei’s convertible, 2001 © Justin Sutcliffe.

       Cosmopolitan Kabul in the 1970s © Hulton Archive.

       Dar-ul Aman © PA News.

       Woman and child on the Dar-ul Aman.

       Second Anglo-Afghan war © Hulton Archive.

       The gardens of Paghman.

       Buddhist sculpture, Kabul Museum before the Taliban © Topham Picturepoint.

       Destroyed artefacts in Kabul Museum, 2001 © Justin Sutcliffe.

       President Hamid Karzai in Presidential Palace, Kabul, winter 2001 © Justin Sutcliffe.