In The memoir Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez went beyond to help women to fulfill their dream and empower them. Rodriguez takes us through a journey filled with stories about her own life and how it is interconnected with the Kabul women in such ways. Rodriguez’s struggle and hard work to open up the Beauty school in Kabul has led to discoveries of afghan women as capable, confident, deeply determined and endlessly resilient. In a country where women have very few opportunities to…
As mentioned and referred Kashmir, Al-Qaida is expanding the operations from this platform and there hidden units in the state. Al Qaeda – the Arabic meaning of the term is THE BASE. The organisation started growing with the dense network of Arab volunteers who migrated to Afghanistan in the eighties to protest under the flag of Islam against the soviets. This organisation stands on a solid platform of unbreakable religious beliefs and extreme rigidness. These volunteers confuse terrorism with a…
On September 11th, 2001, 19 members of the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda high jacked four airliners and executed suicide attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, the pentagon in DC, and the last one was in a field in Somerset County in Pennsylvania. I am going to give a review on the two planes that hit the Twin Towers in New York City. At 8:45 am on a clear Tuesday morning, an American Airlines Boeing 767 was high jacked midflight and went on to crash into the north tower of the…
is one of the many things that has been revolutionized by 9/11. “American lexicon was one of the things that changed drastically in the months and years after the attack… phrases (9/11 being one of them) that entered everyday language: al-Qaeda, Taliban, ground zero, radicalism, extremism… usage dramatically increased and soon became part of Americans’ everyday lives” (Villemez 2). For example al-Qaeda can almost be considered a “household name,” along with Osama bin Laden as well. One of the…
Thesis: Afghanistan’s cultural history dates back over two millennia and its strategic location in the Hindu Kush mountain range aided in the connection of the Middle East and Asia. Afghanistan has seen many military conflicts through the ages, notably by Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Great Britain, Soviet Union, and the United States of America. This has led to an infusion of different ethnic groups, languages, and religions. 1. Geography of Afghanistan A. Land, Location, and Climate…
in many bombings worldwide. The attack on the United States was inevitable but we were not prepared for it. A month after the horrific events the United States and its Allies invaded Afghanistan. They brought down the current group in power, the Taliban, that had allowed al-Qaeda to run training camps within the country. Since this time many members of al-Qaeda have been captured or killed. Their leader Osama bin Laden was killed by American troops in May 2011. The United States then invaded…
DISSERTATION BREAKING BARRIERS To highlight the living conditions of the Afghan community residing in the Capital city of India. INTRODUCTION India is considered as one of the primary hub centres, wherein thousands of refugees arrive every day in order to seek shelter. A refugee is an individual who resides outside his home country. It could be because of various reasons, particularly including the experiences of hardships and being wretched on the basis of ill-treatment. Especially, because…
has been diagnosed with cancer and had passed right after Amir had gotten married to his wife Soraya. Fifteen years had passed Amir had gotten a call from Baba’s dearest friends Rahim Khan learning that Hassan and his wife have been killed by the Taliban that news made Amir rush back to Afghanistan ,going to Afghanistan he knew that Hassan has a son named Sohrab and has been abused in the orphanage he has been in. Therefore Amir adopts Sohrab takes him back to the US to have a better life and…
extremists who go as far as killing people. It is part of the Islamic religion to die a martyr, but some take it to the extreme and kill others as well. A few of the terrorist groups that involve these radicals and extremists include Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and the most recent and rapidly growing which is the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria…
Following the attacks on the twin towers on September 11th, 2001, citizens around the world live in constant fear of terrorist attacks. This fear affects both our mindsets and how we live day to day. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle’s, or drones, provide a plausible reality to reducing the threat that terrorism poses around the world. Through surveillance and the ability to not be easily detected, drones make our troops safer because they are out of harm’s way. With advancements in technology, drones are…