Return To Afghanistan

Return to Afghanistan begins with Baktash Zaher's story but winds up being more about its filmmaker, Vida Zaher, a woman who finds herself on the front lines of the confrontation between West and East. As America wrestles with its desire to bring democracy to Afghanistan and the rest of the Muslim world, this up-to-the-minute account is very germane and absolutely fascinating. Vida Zaher's story is the gripping study of an American woman caught in an existential struggle- she is pulled in one direction by the Eastern/ Islamic emphasis on destiny controlling one's life and in another by the western determination to excersize her free will.

Year Released: 2005