Asne seierstad biography of donald

Seierstad heard Jamila speaking at a livestream debate in Norway — where she was seeking asylum — on the future of her home country. Her life was one of cheerful defiance: first, towards the polio that debilitated her as a child, then towards attitudes that said that, unlike her brothers, she should stay at home, not go to school, and hope that a husband might take her on.

Jamila was having none of that. She not only got an education, she was instrumental in an organisation promoting the teaching of women and girls. All these efforts had been brutally undone by regime change. The pair first met in an asylum centre an hour from Oslo, then up in a fishing village on the frigid northern coast called Alta to which Jamila has been incongruously relocated.

She flew to Kabul in She was lucky, she says. I think he was invited to meet the vice-foreign minister and I kind of snuck in. The regime was still trying to put a more moderate face to the world, however, so the minister granted Seierstad permission to try. Was The Bookseller of Kabul mentioned, I wonder? Through a fixer whose brother was Taliban, Seierstad toured police stations and military camps looking for a suitable subject.

One day her fixer found a man she calls Bashir, who was living in some style in a huge gated villa, commandeered after the US forces left. The Bookseller of Kabul , her second, bestselling book, is an account of the time she spent living with an Afghan family in Kabul after the fall of the Taliban in Seierstad is fluent in five languages, and has "a good working knowledge" of another four.

She has two children with the Norwegian jazz musician and composer Trygve Seim b. There are contradictory accounts concerning Seierstad's legal battles with Shah Muhammad Rais, the bookseller portrayed in The Bookseller of Kabul. According to The Irish Times , on 24 July a court in Oslo found Seierstad guilty of defamation and "negligent journalistic practices and ordered to pay damages to Suraia Rais, wife of Shah Muhammad Rais".

British newspaper The Guardian published the same story, but later revised the it online and in print. In relation to the book's influence on Rais's family members, The Guardian wrote "The article also said the book's revelations of personal details caused several members of the Afghan family to move to Pakistan and Canada. We should have made clear this was an allegation made by the plaintiff's side in a case document.

Seierstad won her appeal of the judgment and the Supreme Court declined to review the appellate court's decision. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Listening Options. Business Sponsorship. Inside WEKU. Show Search Search Query. Support WEKU! Play Live Radio. Next Up:. All Streams. By Ari Shapiro. Facebook LinkedIn Email.

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Asne seierstad biography of donald

Joe Hernandez. Japanese snowboarder Hiroto Ogiwara and Italian skier Miro Tabanelli pulled off the six-and-a-half-rotation maneuver in competition for the first time in history. Seierstad is fluent in five languages, and has "a good working knowledge" of another four. She currently lives and works in Oslo. There are contradictory accounts concerning Seierstad's legal battles with Shah Muhammad Rais, the bookseller portrayed in The Bookseller of Kabul.