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GULCHIN GULMAMADOVA-KLAITS is the author of Love & War in Afghanistan and has worked for a variety of international aid organizations in her native Tajikistan. She holds a BA in economics from a university in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, although her studies were interrupted when she fled her hometown to escape the country’s civil war.