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What the Wire Missed

Reporting collected under the title What the Wire Missed — dispatches, interviews, and notes from the years Abdullah Jan spent covering the story on the ground.

What the Wire Missed is drawn from field notebooks, interview transcripts, and the marginalia of a working journalist — the material that rarely survives the edit but explains how the story was understood at the time.

Written with the distance of hindsight but built from contemporaneous record, the book asks what the reporting got right, what it missed, and why.

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Silk Route Publishing
Pages
314
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ISBN
978-0-00000-013-8
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