I is for Infidel by Kathy Gannon

I is for Infidel by Kathy Gannon

In early 1986 Kathy Gannon sold pretty much everything she owned (which wasn't much) to pursue her dream of becoming a foreign correspondent. She had the world to choose from: she chose Afghanistan. She went to witness the final humiliation of a superpower in terminal decline as the Soviet Union was defeated by the mujahedeen. What she didn't know then was that Afghanistan would remain her focus for the next eighteen years. Gannon, uniquely among Western journalists, witnessed Afghanistan's tragic opera: the final collapse of communism followed by bitterly feuding warlords being driven from power by an Islamicist organization called the Taliban the subsequent arrival of Arabs and exiles, among them Osama bin Laden and the transformation of the country into the staging post for a global jihad. Gannon observed something else as well: the terrible, unforeseen consequences of Western intervention, the ongoing suffering of ordinary Afghans, and the ability of the most corrupt and depraved of the warlords to reinvent and reinsert themselves into successive governments. I is for Infidel is the story of a country told by a writer with a uniquely intimate knowledge of its people and recent history. It will transform readers' understanding of Afghanistan, and inspire awe at the resilience of its people in the face of the monstrous warmongers we have to some extent created there.

"A "vivid", "closely-observed" and "astute" portrayal of Afghanistan from 1986 to the present (Wall Street Journal) "(Kathy Gannon) is unusual among the present generation of foreign correspondentsThe tendency now, even more pronounced than before, is for foreign correspondents to spend a few years in a country and then move on. Gannon has spent 18 years covering Afghanistan and Pakistan for the Associated Press news agency, finally leaving this year for a posting in Iran." The Guardian"

Kathy Gannon is Associated Press Special Regional Correspondent for Pakistan and Afghanistan. In 2011 she received the Canadian National Newspapers' Governors Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2003-4 she was Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and was been published in the New Yorker, Foreign Affairs, Wall Street Journal and L.A. Times. Born in Timmins, Ontario, Gannon was city editor at the Kelowna Courier and worked in several Canadian newspapers before going overseas. She has lived in Israel, Japan, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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ISBN 13	9781586484521
ISBN 10	1586484524
Title	I is for Infidel
Author	Kathy Gannon
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	PublicAffairs,U.S.
Year published	2006-09-05
Number of pages	208
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