An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir

by Chesler, Phyllis

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  Index

  9/11, x, 161, 163–78, 181,

  193–94

  Abdel-Rahman, Omar (the blind sheikh), 166, 168–70

  Abdullah, Morag Murray (pen name of Saira Luiza Elizabeth MacKenzie Shah), 19–20, 27, 35, 52, 64, 81, 212

  Aciman, Andre, 160

  Afghan food, 16–17, 21, 26, 58, 65, 91, 98, 103

  Afghan National Museum (in Kabul), 99

  Afghan Women’s Fund, 200

  Aharon, Sara Y., 152–54, 157–59

  Ahmad Shah Durrani, 115–16