An account of the author's transition from being an Afghan refugee to becoming a devout Muslim and resistance fighter struggling against the Soviet occupation in the late 1980s and eventually a Harvard University student as he found a path away from extremism.
year: 2009
call number/section: 921
subjects: farivar, masood, afghans, muslims, united states, jihad, history, east and west, journalists, afghanistan, biography, afghanistan, history, soviet occupation, 1979-1989, 1989-2001