Books by Ahmed Rashid and Complete Book Reviews
Ahmed Rashid, Author . Yale Univ. $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-300-09345-2
As the events of September 11 showed, neglected areas of the Islamic world are feeding grounds for international terrorism. And as Rashid, author of the best-selling Taliban,
shows in this important work, Islamic fundamentalism is gaining ground in
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Ahmed Rashid, Author . Viking $27.95 (484p) ISBN 978-0-670-01970-0
Long overshadowed by the Iraq War, the ongoing turmoil in Afghanistan and Central Asia finally receives a searching retrospective as Rashid (Taliban
) surveys the region to reveal a thicket of ominous threats and lost opportunities—in Pakistan,
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Ahmed Rashid. Viking, $36.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-02346-2
With the killing of Osama bin Laden in May 2011 and the U.S. scheduled to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan in 2014, growing attention is focused on Afghanistan's far more populous and politically volatile eastern neighbor. Native son and...
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Ahmed Rashid, Author, Arthur Morey, Read by , read by Arthur Morey. Brilliance Audio $49.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-6806-9
“Iraq may turn out to be a mere side show compared with what is at stake with Pakistan and Afghanistan,” says Rashid in his critical, timely and expansive book (the introduction alone takes up almost an entire disc). Arthur Morey walks a
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