Searching for Saleem by Farooka Gauhari

Searching for Saleem by Farooka Gauhari

Searching for Saleem is a first-person account-written by a wife, mother, and professional-of a national tragedy that interrupted daily life in Afghanistan after the communist coup of April 1978. Farooka Gauhari tells of her desperate attempts to find out what happened to her missing husband, Saleem, and her gradual, painful decision to leave the country with her three children. In a broader sense, her story reflects the harrowing experiences of countless Afghan families: their sufferings and their struggles to maintain their identities under totalitarian rule. It typifies the kinds of human rights violations practiced against scores of Afghans who disappeared into dark cells or were executed without trials by successions of communist governments.

MsGauhari's writing voice is powerful... Nothing like this memoir exists in print and it is an essential contribution to modern Afghan history... Ms. Gauhari is a gifted storyteller with an important story to tell. Margaret A. Mills, author of Oral Tradition in Afghanistan: The Individual in Transition.

Farooka Gauhari, formerly an associate professor at Kabul University in Afghanistan, currently works in the department of biology at the University of Nebraska in Omaha. Nancy Dupree is the author of The Cultural Basis of Afghan Nationalism.

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ISBN 13	9780803221567
ISBN 10	0803221568
Title	Searching for Saleem
Author	Farooka Gauhari
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	University of Nebraska Press
Year published	1996-10-28
Number of pages	267
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