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An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir by Phyllis Chesler

• An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir
• Phyllis Chesler
• Page: 256
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9780230342217
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Overview

Few westerners will ever be able to understand Muslim or Afghan society unless they are part of a Muslim family. Twenty years old and in love, Phyllis Chesler, a Jewish-American girl from Brooklyn, embarked on an adventure that has lasted for more than a half-century. In 1961, when she arrived in Kabul with her Afghan bridegroom, authorities took away her American passport. Chesler was now the property of her husband’s family and had no rights of citizenship. Back in Afghanistan, her husband, a wealthy, ...