[PDF] Afghan Interpreters Through Western Eyes eBook

Author : Hilary Footitt
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 20,24 MB
Release : 2023-12-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3031403835

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This book explores how endangered local interpreters in Afghanistan were seen through Western eyes in the period from 2014, when the West drew down the bulk of its military forces, to the summer of 2021, when NATO forces withdrew completely. The author examines how these interpreters were understood and represented by Western governments, militaries, agencies, press and lobby organisations, how the understandings changed over time, and to what extent the representations reflect distinct rationales for intervention/historic relationships with Afghanistan, specific immigration and anti-terrorism policies, and notions of citizenship. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of translation and interpreting, history, war studies, and migration studies.

Author : Claire Chambers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 37,52 MB
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1040028314

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Translation and Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches offers compelling explorations of the pivotal role that translation plays in the complex and necessarily incomplete process of decolonisation. In a world where translation has historically been a tool of empire and colonisation, this collection shines the spotlight on the potential for translation to be a driving force in decolonial resistance. The book bridges the divide between translation studies and the decolonial turn in the social sciences and humanities, revealing the ways in which translation can challenge colonial imaginaries, institutions, and practice, and how translation opens up South-to-South conversations. It brings together scholars from diverse disciplines and fields, including sociology, literature, languages, migration, politics, anthropology, and more, offering interdisciplinary approaches and perspectives. By examining both the theoretical and practical aspects of this intersection, the chapters of this agenda-setting collection explore the impact of translation on decolonisation and highlight the need to decolonise translation studies itself. The book illuminates the transformative power of translation in transcending linguistic, cultural, and political boundaries.

Author : Shah Wali Fazli
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 19,57 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466293120

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As an Afghan interpreter helping the NATO forces counter the Taliban in the country of his birth, Shabir Khan is lost between two worlds – that of his countrymen whose every suffering he experiences to his core and of the stunning landscapes of his homeland, and that of crusading foreign forces trying to counter the brutality of a group of fighters determined to stamp out the modernity of universal education, health care and equality among the Afghan people.As far as Mullah Aslam, who leads a band of Taliban guerrillas, is concerned, Shabir Khan and his fellow interpreters are traitors and American dogs who deserve to be captured, stabbed a thousand times and decapitated as soon as he can get his hands on them. For the NATO forces they support, they are emblematic of the ideal they are fighting for, and essential translators not only of the language itself, but of the psychology, culture and the terrain of the country they have been mandated to pacify.'The Interpreter' is a fictionalised first hand account, written by a real Afghan interpreter, of what it is like to patrol the wilds of Afghanistan, and to seek to enhance the daily lives of its people, under the relentless threat of imminent death and mutilation from sudden rocket and mortar attacks, ambushes, landmines and suicide bombers, and of the fates of the ordinary Afghan families who lose children, husbands and wives in their very homes as they are caught up in the maelstrom of the crossfire and of a ruthless propaganda war that counts lives wasted as daily victories.It is also the story of the vendetta between Mullah Aslam as the scourge of the NATO forces and Shabir Khan as their collaborator, and of the day they meet face-to-face, knowing that soon one or both of them must die.

Author : Nasirullah "John" Safi
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Afghan War, 2001-2021
ISBN :

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"An account of the day-to-day life and combat experiences of an Afghan interpreter. Readers are introduced to the harsh reality and dangers that many of our Afghan partners face. Safi's journey from child into manhood is essential reading for those wishing to understand the dynamic culture and dangers facing US/Afghan interpreters. A vivid and introspective glimpse into the life of a combat-tested interpreter. Safi's story is hilarious, terrifying and sorrowing and he is a true voice of the Afghan war." - Amazon.com

Author : EDDIE. IDRESS
Publisher : Pen & Sword Military
Page : pages
File Size : 13,4 MB
Release : 2021-05-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781526758507

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Eddie Idrees, a pseudonym for security reasons, has a fascinating and inspiring story to tell. Born in Afghanistan, he spent time as a refugee in Pakistan during the civil war dreaming of serving with the military. As this unique memoir reveals, his wishes came true in spades.For eight years from 2004, Eddie worked as an interpreter with, first, American Special Forces before moving across to the Special Air Service. A veteran of over 500 operations, he describes the most notable ones including breaking into a Taliban prison to free prisoners about to be executed. He was the first Afghan interpreter to parachute in with the SAS.His aim in writing his story is to explain the interpreter's role and contribution and the challenges and threats they faced, not just from the Taliban. For all the media attention, these have never been fully understood.Eddie concludes by describing his experiences and emotions on leaving his fractured and politically corrupt homeland and making a new life in the United Kingdom.Special Forces Interpreter demands to be read and not just for its vivid and thrilling descriptions of Special Forces' operations.

Author : Scott Mann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,62 MB
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1668003651

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An edge-of-your-seat thriller about a group of retired Green Berets who come together to save a former comrade—and 500 other Afghans—being targeted by the Taliban in the chaos of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. In April 2021, an urgent call was placed from a Special Forces operator serving overseas. The message was clear: Get Nezam out of Afghanistan now. Nezam was part of the Afghan National Army’s first group of American-trained commandos; he passed through Fort Bragg’s legendary Q course and served alongside the US Special Forces for over a decade. But Afghanistan’s government and army were on the edge of collapse, and Nezam was receiving threatening texts from the Taliban. The message reached Nezam’s former commanding officer, retired Lt. Col. Scott Mann, who couldn’t face the idea of losing another soldier in the long War on Terror. Immediately, he sends out an SOS to a group of Afghan vets (Navy SEALs, Green Berets, CIA officers, USAID advisors). They all answer the call for one last mission. Operating out of basements and garages, Task Force Pineapple organizes an escape route for Nezam and gets him into hiding in Taliban-controlled Kabul. After many tense days, he braves the enemy checkpoints and the crowds of thousands blocking the airport gates. He finally makes it through the wire and into the American-held airport thanks to the frantic efforts of the Pineapple express, a relentless Congressional aide, and a US embassy official. Nezam is safe, but calls are coming in from all directions requesting help for other Afghan soldiers, interpreters, and at-risk women and children. Task Force Pineapple widens its scope—and ends up rescuing 500 more Afghans from Kabul in the three chaotic days before the ISIS-K suicide bombing. Operation Pineapple Express is a thrilling, suspenseful tale of service and loyalty amidst the chaos of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Author : Nivi Manchanda
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 24,73 MB
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1108491235

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An innovative exploration of how colonial interventions in Afghanistan have been made possible through representations of the country as 'backward'.

Author : Saima Wahab
Publisher : Crown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 24,62 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307884945

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Relates the author's decision, years after her father was taken away by the KGB, to relocate to her uncle's home in America, where she pursued an education and worked as an interpreter before becoming a cultural adviser for the U.S. Army.

Author : Joseph Cassar
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,71 MB
Release : 2023-02-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780645641301

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The story is about a young man fresh from high school who grows up during the entire period of the 20 year old war in Afghanistan, narrating his varied and unique experiences. In his dual role of an interpreter with the NATO forces and a private security manager he experienced first-hand the carnage on the convoy routes of the NATO forces to their regional centres, as well as on the streets of Kabul. Based on true events, this narrative non-fiction story is extracted from the diary notes kept by this young man who grew up in a city ubiquitously subjected to terror. The story taps into the ongoing struggle of this young father trying to build a decent life and career in a war-torn country. Thrown in the midst of a struggle between the tribal dominance of the Taliban culture and a fledgling democracy in Afghanistan his constant unease stirs him on to keep looking for a better life. Living on borrowed time before the inevitable collapse of the Afghan government, he steers through a series of possible options to get out of this stalemate. His life is one that swings on a pendulum from straight-out capture and being murdered across to desperate survival. The odds were high but so was his determination to achieve his goal.He ends up escaping in late August 2021 as a wanted political refugee with a humanitarian visa granted him by Australia.