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Kim Barker. Photographer | William Coupon. Kim Barker was the South Asia bureau chief for The Chicago Tribune from 2004 to 2009, based in New Delhi and Islamabad. Her book about those years, “ The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan ,” a dark comedic take on her time in South Asia, was published by Doubleday.
About The Taliban Shuffle. A true-life Catch-22 set in the deeply dysfunctional countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan, by one of the region’s longest-serving correspondents. Kim Barker is not your typical, impassive foreign correspondent—she is candid, self-deprecating, laugh-out-loud funny.
ISBN. 0-385-53331-4. The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan is a memoir by U.S. journalist Kim Barker about her experiences reporting in Pakistan and Afghanistan. It was published in 2011.
Mar 14, 2011 · March 14, 2011. A funny book about Afghanistan and Pakistan? It sounds like an oxymoron. Where is the comedy in a terrible war that continues to claim American and Afghan lives? What is comic about...
When Kim Barker first arrived in Kabul as a journalist in 2002, she barely owned a passport, spoke only English and had little idea how to do the “Taliban Shuffle” between Afghanistan and Pakistan. No matter—her stories about Islamic militants and shaky reconstruction were soon overshadowed by the bigger news in Iraq. But as she
I am a New York Times reporter writing in-depth stories about national issues, using public records and dozens of interviews to try to uncover things previously not known. What I Cover. I’m based...
Mar 17, 2016 · March 17, 2016. Charles Munitz. Tina Fey in a scene from "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot." (Courtesy Paramount Pictures) With a wink, Kim Barker, author of the memoir “The Taliban Shuffle” —...
