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A Fort of Nine Towers
Qais Akbar Omar was eleven when a brutal civil war engulfed Kabul. For Qais it brought an abrupt end to a childhood filled with kites and cousins in his grandfathers garden one of the most convulsive decades in Afghan history had begun. Ahead lay the rise of the Taliban and in 2001 the arrival of international forces. It is the story of Qais his family and their determination to survive these upheavals as they were buffered form one part of Afghanistan to the next.
