An Afghan Immigrant: My Journey from Kabul to Paris to Texas

Description

This memoir explores relevant issues of international importance, especially now with the world in turmoil and the United States in a position to help find solutions to reduce it.

The story is based on events in the life of Ahmad Ansari, an Afghan teenager during the 1970s when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Ahmad was badly injured during a rocket attack on his house, but he faced life’s challenges. He graduated as the valedictorian of his French high school in Kabul and earned a French government scholarship that he almost lost because the communist government at the time considered him “unpatriotic.” With the help of his parents, he managed to leave Afghanistan and go to France to pursue his education. After earning a doctorate degree in engineering, he immigrated to the United States to join his refugee family who had escaped political persecution and war in his homeland.

Through his life story, Ahmad shows how unrealistic foreign policies and unfounded idealism of powerful countries can lead to global disasters that can impact us all.