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DESCRIPTION:Tamim Ansary is the author of Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World 
 through Islamic Eyes and West of Kabul, East of New York, among other 
 books. For ten years he wrote a monthly column for Encarta.com, and has 
 published essays and commentary in the San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, 
 Alternet, TomPaine.com, Edutopia, Parade, Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. 
 Born in Afghanistan in 1948, he moved to the U.S. in 1964. He is director 
 of the San Francisco Writers Workshop. We invite you to join us in 
 celebrating his major new work.\n\n \n\nGames without Rules is an 
 enlightening, accessible history of modern Afghanistan from the Afghan 
 point of view, showing how Great Power conflicts have interrupted its 
 ongoing, internal struggle to take form as a nation.\n\n \n\nMost 
 Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy 
 and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real; but it sits atop an older 
 struggle, between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, 
 between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older 
 Afghanistan: a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam.\n\n 
 \n\nAnsary draws on his Afghan background, Muslim roots, and Western and 
 Afghan sources to explain history from the inside out, and to illuminate 
 the long, internal struggle that the outside world has never fully 
 understood. It is the story of a nation struggling to take form, a nation 
 undermined by its own demons while, every 40 to 60 years, a great power 
 crashes in and disrupts whatever progress has been made. Told as story, and 
 focusing on key events and personalities, Games without Rules provides 
 revelatory insight into a country at the center of political debate.\n\n 
 \n"In "Games Without Rules", Tamim Ansary has written the most engaging, 
 accessible and insightful history of Afghanistan. With gifted prose and 
 revealing details, Ansary gives us the oft-neglected Afghan perspective of 
 the wars, foreign meddling and palace intrigue that has defined the past 
 few centuries between the Indus and Oxus. This brilliant book should be 
 required reading for anyone involved in the current war there -- and anyone 
 who wants to understand why Afghanistan will not be at peace anytime soon." 
 -- Rajiv Chandrasekaran, author of Little America: The War Within the War 
 for Afghanistan\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/11/08/18725314.php
SUMMARY:Tamim Ansary / Games without Rules: The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan
LOCATION:The Booksmith\n1644 Haight Street\nSan Francisco CA 94117
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/11/08/18725314.php
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