Afghanistan in the Cinema

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments This book could not have been written without the kindness and generosity of many people from all over the world. From Afghanistan there was Roya Sadat in Herat and Ibrahim Faizi in Kabul, who shared with me Sadat’s remarkable film. From the United Kingdom, Corinne Fowler and Jude Davies made their scholarship available to me, as did Fadwa El Guindi and Richard A. Voeltz in the United States. Farhad Azad, publisher of the online Afghan literary journal Lemar-Aftaab, demonstrated the generosity for which Afghans all over the world are renowned. Elizabeth Fifer, my graduate school mentor at Lehigh University, provided bothconstructivecriticismandencouragement,asdidDawnKeetleyatLehigh and Louis Schwartzat KutztownUniversity.Mythanksalsogotothe dedicated team at the University of Illinois Press, especially to my editor Joan Catapano, assistant editor Rebecca McNulty, and copy editor Carol Burwash. Most of all I would like to thank my family—my parents, Kenneth and Michele Graham, and especially my wife, Fauzia Nouristani, who inspired me not only to begin this book but also to finish it. i-x_1-198_Grah.indd 9 1/25/10 2:27:06 PM i-x_1-198_Grah.indd 10 1/25/10 2:27:06 PM ...