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Sarah Chayes

Colour photograph of author Sarah Chayes with tailor by Eve Chayes Lyman

Sarah Chayes was working in Kandahar as a correspondent for US National Public Radio when the Taliban regime fell in autumn 2001. In 2002, she launched an NGO with the older brother of the Afghan President but now runs a cosmetics-making co-operative in Kandahar.

She has been invited to stand for Mayor of Kandahar, but refused. She was awarded the 1999 Foreign Press Club award for her news reportage.

Sarah's website

Arghand, the business cooperative Sarah set up in Kandahar

Photograph © Eve Chayes Lyman

  • Cover for paperback edition of The Punishment of Virtue

    The Punishment of Virtue (First B Format Paperback)

    Sarah Chayes

    “A devastating indictment of the contradictions of US policy in Afghanistan by an extremely courageous woman. This is the inside story on Afghanistan after the Taliban by someone who knows and cares” Christina Lamb

    Published: 01/10/07, RRP: £9.99, Introductory Offer: 20% Off All Titles, Web Price: £7.99, You Save: £2.00 (20%), ADD TO BASKET

  • Cover for hardback edition of The Punishmnet of Virtue

    The Punishment of Virtue (First Hardback Edition)

    Sarah Chayes

    “A devastating indictment of the contradictions of US policy in Afghanistan by an extremely courageous woman. This is the inside story on Afghanistan after the Taliban by someone who knows and cares” Christina Lamb

    Published: 01/03/07, RRP: £20.00, Introductory Offer: 20% Off All Titles, Web Price: £16.00, You Save: £4.00 (20%), ADD TO BASKET