by Rod Nordland
Rastagar’s negotiated settlement, 143–48, 153–54
return to Bamiyan, 179–80
secret courtship and engagement, 35–41, 51–52
self-possession of, 55–56
in Surkh Dar, 186, 187–89, 191, 233–46, 249–52
in Tajikistan, 220–26
deportation, 226–27
entry, 220–21
Taliban occupation and, 22–23
at WAW shelter, 163–65, 168, 170, 171–72, 177–79, 185–86
Zakir, Qari, 60
Zaman (Mohammad Zaman)
arrest of Ali, 165–66
bigamy charges against Ali, 73, 80, 87–88, 91, 144, 166–67, 171
court case and, 59, 60, 62, 63, 66–67, 73, 87–88
criminal charges against Zakia, 171–73
honor of, 90–91, 124–25
in Kabul, 123–24, 144–45, 187
neka of Zakia, 73, 88, 148, 170, 173
Rastagar’s negotiated settlement, 143–48, 153–54
refusal of consent to marriage of Zakia, 43–44, 52–53, 58–59
retribution against Zakia for dishonoring family, 2, 63–65, 88–89, 123–25, 160–61, 170–73
Zarmeena, 265
Zarnegar Park, 211
Zia, Ahmed, 98–99
Zina. See Adultery
Zuleikha, 7, 30, 45–46
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ROD NORDLAND is currently a correspondent-at-large for the New York Times, working throughout the Middle East and South Asia, but he spent more than three years as the paper’s bureau chief in Kabul. He shared a Pulitzer Prize for reporting in the United States, was a Pulitzer finalist for international reporting, studied as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, and has received many honors including two George Polk awards and half a dozen Overseas Press Club awards. Nordland has worked for three decades as a foreign correspondent in over 150 countries.
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CREDITS
Cover design by Sara Wood
Cover photograph © by Diego Ibarra Sánchez
Persian and Dari poetry and song translations by Bruce Wannell and Sahar Dowlashahi.
Photographs by Diego Ibarra Sánchez, Mauricio Lima, Andrew Quilty, Jawad Sukhanyar, and Kiana Hayeri
Map by Studio E Genevieve, designer Sisi Zhu
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