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DESCRIPTION:The author of Destiny Disrupted delivers 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\nToday, most 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\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 in conversational, storytelling style, and focusing on key 
 events and personalities, Games without Rules provides revelatory insight 
 into a country at the center of political debate.\n\nTamim 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 lives in San Francisco, where he is 
 director of the San Francisco Writers Workshop.\n\nAt Hillside Club (2286 
 Cedar Street, Berkeley)\n\nTickets $12 ($7 students, OLLI, and Hillside 
 members) in advance only at Brown Paper Tickets online or 800-838-3006; $15 
 at the door (all)\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/11/08/18725315.php
SUMMARY:Tamim Ansary / Games without Rules: The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan
LOCATION:Berkeley Arts & Letters at the Hillside Club\n2286 Cedar Street\nBerkeley 
 CA 94709
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/11/08/18725315.php
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