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what will happen to the children and to the women? this is the question i want america to grapple with. by the way, the taliban really, it s pakistan that has given us the taliban, not merely america of yore. and if we want to really get rid of the taliban, we have to deal with pakistan, a nuclear ally. not so easy. and now we have terrible news. they re about to pass a new law in afghanistan which will mean no family member can testify against another family member, because that will be very bad for the family, right? what is that telling us? that if a girl finally says they ve cut off my nose, my ears, they ve tortured me, they tried to prostitute me, my mother-in-law beats me every day, my brother-in-law beats me every day, she will not have any possibility of access for redress or for a hearing, because that would be bad for family life. it was actually in all the papers this past weekend. we leave, it s over. how do we resolve this sort of crisis short of perpetual war
United-statesCanadaJapanAfghanistanIranPakistanUnited-kingdomAmericaBritishRory-stewartJames-michener oh, what a high life. as i say in the book, it was very much like an italian film, i thought, and he was [laughter] he wasn t yul brynner, he was omar sharif. so hard. when i came back, i couldn t tell anybody what really had happened because when i tried, they didn t understand or wouldn t believe me. i would say things like slavery. i saw slavery. i saucer haven ts treated like slaves servants treated like slaves. i d say the women, they had no value. we went to a maternity hospital, and there was a woman screaming and then it turned out that her husband, who would come, was fighting with the doctor in charge because the wife died, the baby was about to die. the father didn t want to have to pay for nothing. he said he s going to have to take a lot of money down to get a new wife for all his other kids, so why was the doctor demanding payment? there wasn t a single word, and i had my afghan husband translate all of this for me. there wasn t a single word, she s died, it
New-yorkUnited-statesMontanaCanadaGermanyAfghanistanIranBrazilPortugalCaliforniaUnited-arab-emiratesRussia this weekend, but tv and american history tv look behind the history and literary life of salem, a oregon. throughout the weekend on c-span2 and today at 2:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. you re watching booktv. next, phyllis chesler talks about her experiences living in afghanistan in the early 1960s. phyllis chesler became part of a harem and learn about what life was like for many afghan women living under the rule of muslim fundamentalists. this is a little under one hour. okay. so for the reasons of the camera i have to look directly over here. that is okay. i can? all right, that is okay. i once lived in a harem in afghanistan and i loved my opening sentence. i loved the book out of africa. we had grim adventures that transcended in a single relationship, such adventures could be costly. yes, i once lived in a harem in afghanistan. but i nearly died there as well. a harem simply means the women s quarters and for been to all men who are not relatives. if you can t
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