Rod Nordland Bücher

Für ihre Liebe riskieren Zakia und Muhammad Ali alles. Sie laufen davon und heiraten heimlich. Doch in Afghanistan droht ihnen dafür der Tod. Zakia und Muhammad Ali waren als Kinder unzertrennlich. Auf angrenzenden Feldern im afghanischen Bamian halfen sie ihren Eltern. Aber seit sie vierzehn ist, darf Zakia mit keinen anderen Männern als ihrem Vater und ihren Brüdern sprechen. In Afghanistan gehören Frauen erst ihren Vätern, dann ihren Ehemännern. Doch es gelingt Muhammad Ali, im Verborgenen um sie zu werben. Seine offiziellen Heiratsanträge lehnt Zakias Vater ab. Zakia und Muhammad Ali entschließen sich zur Flucht – ein Mullah traut sie heimlich. Zakias Familie und die Polizei aber sind längst hinter ihnen her. Werden sie gefunden, droht ihnen der Tod. Es beginnt eine gefährliche Jagd quer durch Afghanistan – von Höhle zu Höhle, von Versteck zu Versteck.

The story follows Zakia and Ali, two young lovers from different Muslim sects in Afghanistan, who elope to escape familial and cultural constraints. Their journey unfolds amidst the challenges of seeking safety and acceptance in a society that opposes their union. Journalist Rod Nordland, who previously shared their plight in the New York Times, feels compelled to assist them but realizes the limitations of his ability to ensure their safety. The narrative explores themes of love, sacrifice, and the struggle against societal norms.

In the tradition of  When Breath Becomes Air,  the  New York Times 's legendary war correspondent delivers his unforgettable final a deeply moving meditation on life inspired by his sudden battle with terminal brain cancer. Rod Nordland shadowed death for thirty years as one of his generation's preeminent war correspondents, including posts as bureau chief in Kabul and Baghdad. Then on July 5, 2019, he collapsed in the middle of a morning jog in Delhi's beautiful Lodhi Gardens. He was taken to the local hospital, where doctors diagnosed a brain tumor that turned out to be terminal cancer. Confined to a hospital bed after so many vagabond years spent chasing the next conflict across the globe, Nordland discovered a curious side he was gifted the chance to stop, reflect, and reconnect with those he loved but had been apart from for decades. In the months that passed after his stint in the hospital, he no longer flinched at love and intimacy but exalted in its balm and power. He and his children made peace and enjoyed a closeness he had once thought impossible. He repaired a friendship broken twenty years earlier after decades as the best of friends. Gone was the old arrogance, the certitude that dominated his every action, the combination of which--overweening arrogance and self-confidence--likely helped make him a successful foreign correspondent but denied him the opportunity of becoming so much more. Nordland writes, "Friends and family members and editors have often raised their eyebrows at my frequent assertions that my tumor was the best thing that ever happened to me, a gift that has enriched my life ever since."   Nordland's account of those first days in the hospital, published in the  New York Times  two months after his diagnosis, was widely shared and praised by readers for its honesty and beautiful writing. Now he expands on this piece, sharing the lessons he's learned over the last few years. Deeply moving and inspiring,  Waiting for the Monsoon  is a remarkable story about the human capacity to persevere even in the most difficult of times.

A riveting, real-life equivalent of The Kite Runneran astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about womens rights in the Muslim world. Zakia and Ali were from different tribes, but they grew up on neighboring farms in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. By the time they were young teenagers, Zakia, strikingly beautiful and fiercely opinionated, and Ali, shy and tender, had fallen in love. Defying their families, sectarian differences, cultural conventions, and Afghan civil and Islamic law, they ran away together only to live under constant threat from Zakias large and vengeful family, who have vowed to kill her to restore the familys honor. They are still in hiding. Despite a decade of American good intentions, women in Afghanistan are still subjected to some of the worst human rights violations in the world. Rod Nordland, then the Kabul bureau chief of the New York Times, had watched these abuses unfold for years when he came upon Zakia and Ali, and has not only chronicled their plight, but has also shepherded them from danger. The Lovers will do for womens rights generally what Malalas story did for womens education. It is an astonishing story about self-determination and the meaning of love that illustrates, as no policy book could, the limits of Western influence on fundamentalist Islamic culture and, at the same time, the need for change

Zakia bola Tadžička, Ali bol Hazár, ona sunnitská moslimka, on šiitský moslim. Odmala vyrastali ako nerozluční priatelia v odľahlej provincii Bamján, ich priateľstvo sa postupne zmenilo na lásku. Zakiina rodina mala však s dcérou iné plány, a tak sa mladí odvážne vzopreli tradičným afganským zvykom a islamskému právu. Zakia utiekla do ženského útulku, no nemohla sa vídať s Alim. Zaľúbenci sa opäť ocitli na úteku, neustále prenasledovaní Zakiinou rodinou. Rod Nordland ich príbeh zverejnil vo svetových médiách a rozhodol sa im pomôcť. Po mesiacoch života v jaskyniach a v domácom väzení sa mladý pár s pomocou Roda a finančných darov pokúšal utiecť do Tadžikistanu. Zakiina rodina ich po nútenom návrate do Kábulu naďalej prenasledovala. Nordland ponúka pútavý príbeh o tom, aké zložité je vybojovať pre Zakiu a Alia základné ľudské práva, aj napriek podpore zo Západu. Dokumentuje aj hlboké zakorenenie krutých praktík v afganskej kultúre. Modernizovaný súdny systém zohľadňuje práva žien, no mnohé zvyky pretrvávajú. Mladí manželia dnes vychovávajú dcérku a dúfajú, že z krajiny raz uniknú. Ich príbeh je o nezlomnej sile citov a túžbe po dôstojnom živote v represívnej kultúre.