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The dressmaker of Khair Khana : five sisters, one remarkable family, and the woman who risked everything to keep them safe  Cover Image Book Book

The dressmaker of Khair Khana : five sisters, one remarkable family, and the woman who risked everything to keep them safe / Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.

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  • ISBN: 9780061732379 (hc) :
  • ISBN: 9780061732478 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: xxvi, 256 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, c2011.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Subject: Sediqi, Kamela, 1977-
Sediqi, Kamela, 1977- > Family.
Businesswomen > Afghanistan > Kabul > Biography.
Community life > Afghanistan > Kabul > History > 21st century.
Dressmakers > Afghanistan > Kabul > Biography.
Sisters > Afghanistan > Kabul > Biography.
Kabul (Afghanistan) > Biography.
Kabul (Afghanistan) > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Kabul (Afghanistan) > Social life and customs > 21st century.
Khair Khana (Kabul, Afghanistan) > Biography.

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Stroud Branch 958.1 Sediq-T 31681002244036 NONFIC Available -

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is a Fellow and Deputy Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2004 she left ABC News to earn her MBA at Harvard, where she began writing about women entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict zones, including Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Rwanda. Her reporting on entrepreneurs in these countries has been published by the New York Times, the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor, CNN.com, and the Daily Beast, as well as the World Bank and Harvard Business School. She lives in Los Angeles.


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