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The Finest Hotel in Kabul
Review of The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan, by Lyse Doucet. Penguin Random House UK, 2025.Reviewed by Tim Martin. It’s an intriguing title. Why would Lyse Doucet, chief international correspondent for the BBC, choose to write about a luxury hotel in Afghanistan? It’s an unusual entry point for the first major war of…
