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Afghanistan Where God Only Comes To Weep – Siba Shakib

Born in Iran, Siba Shakib grew up in Tehran and attended a German school there. A writer and maker of docu¬ mentaries and films, she has travelled to Afghanistan many times in recent years, visiting the north as well as the territory commanded by the Taliban. Several of her documentaries have won awards, including the moving testimonials she has made of the horrors of life in Afghanistan and the plight of the Afghan women.
She is currently writing the script to a film about Afghanistan, and when not travelling the world with her work, she lives in New York and Germany. r The Author Born in Iran, Siba Shakib grew up in Tehran and attended a German school there. A writer and maker of docu¬ mentaries and films, she has travelled to Afghanistan many times in recent years, visiting the north as well as the territory commanded by the Taliban.
Several of her documentaries have won awards, including the moving testimonials she has made of the horrors of life in Afghanistan and the plight of the Afghan women. She is currently writing the script to a film about Afghanistan, and when not travelling the world with her work, she lives in New York and Germany.
Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes To Wee’p Siba Shakib Century • London First published by Century in 2002 Copyright © Siba Shakib 2002 Translation copyright © Shaun Whiteside 2002 The right of Siba Shakib to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988 This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser Translated from the German, Nach Afghanistan kommt Gott nur noch zumWeinen, first published in 2001 by C.
Bertelsmann Verlag, an imprint of Verlagsgruppe Random House, Munich. © 2001 by Siba Shakib © 2001 by C.
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