Mary Anne Weaver's Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad & Afghanistan was first published in 2002 and then in 2003 with a new afterword dated April 2003. She met the head of one of Pakistan's madrasah and asked him, "What do you think of Osama bin Laden?" He replied, "What do you think of Abraham Lincoln?" In her chapter on the (incredibily weird) houbara bustard hunts in the desert, she asked to me with a Saudi prince who was in Pakistan for the hunt. "Impossible," she was told, "The prince doesn't wans to meet any women." "I'm not a woman," Weaver said, "I'm a journalist." He shrugged. "It's all the same." I loved Pakistan, or at least the Hindu Kush, the single time I was there 30 years ago, so I'm biased, but this is a very fine book. She's written a book about Egypt, which I'm going to find.
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