At the Margins: Four Years in South Asia and West Africa - Hardcover

Guichard, Roger H

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1498244246 ISBN 13: 9781498244244

Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2017

Synopsis

At the Margins tells the story of living and working in the Afghan program in Pakistan for three years in the early 1990s followed by a year in Niger in West Africa. The title comes from the fact that South and Central Asia and West Africa represent relative extremes in the geographical reach of Islam. Afghanistan should need no introduction. Niger may seem an odd pairing with Afghanistan, but the assignments were of a piece: large-scale commodities and infrastructure assistance for impoverished, overwhelmingly Muslim countries in the throes of man-made and natural disasters. The Sahel, of which Niger mostly consists, has become a battleground of late. In the last decade of the twentieth century it was largely immune to the bacillus of Islamism. But the spread was inexorable and the familiar issues of corruption, rapid population growth, inequality, and diminished opportunities have combined with religious zealotry to spark violent eruptions against the existing order. It would be immodest to claim that in 1995 we saw it coming, but the ingredients were already there. We should not be surprised at the spread. Roger H. Guichard, Jr. is a management consultant who has lived and worked for most of the past thirty years in the Muslim world. He is the author of Niebuhr in Egypt (2013) and Masr: An Egyptian Miscellany (2015), both published by Wipf & Stock.

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About the Author

Roger H. Guichard, Jr. is a management consultant who has lived and worked for most of the past thirty years in the Muslim world. He is the author of Niebuhr in Egypt (2013) and Masr: An Egyptian Miscellany (2015), both published by Wipf & Stock.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1498244246
• ISBN 13: 9781498244244
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 254