Andrew North with Tamim Ansary

"Anyone who wants to learn about Afghanistan, its people and its turbulent history must read War & Peace & War" - Zarghuna Kargar, author of Dear Zari: The Secret Lives of Women in Afghanistan

War & Peace & War begins with Andrew North's account of being abducted by the Taliban in 2022. By then, he had been covering Afghanistan for 20 years and his book brings together his own reporting with the experiences of five Afghans from different walks of life to tell the story of the country's long wars with foreign powers and the return of the Taliban. 

About the Author
Andrew North is an award-winning journalist and former BBC Afghanistan correspondent. He also spent many years based in Iraq and has reported from across the Middle East and Asia. Andrew now contributes to a wide range of media outlets and also sketches; War & Peace & War is illustrated with his own drawings. 

About the Moderator
Tamim Ansary is the author of acclaimed memoirs like West of Kabul, East of New York (selected as San Francisco's One City One Book in 2008), Road Trips, and other works of fiction and nonfiction. He won the Northern California Book Award for Destiny Disrupted and was nominated for Games Without Rules.  He ran the San Francisco Writers Workshop for 22 years, and has taught memoir writing in many venues from Puerto Vallerta’s Taheima Resort to UC Berkeley’s  OLLI program. His latest title, The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection, told the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age.

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