MALALAI Joan of Arc of Afghanistan and The Victors of Maiwand

About the Book

A young American physician Dr. Scott Fitzgerald from Pennsylvania sets out on a journey to fulfill his father’s dream by returning to Afghanistan where his father Bryan had spent nearly twenty years as the first American in that remote kingdom. Bryan had befriended Prince Akbar, the hero of First Anglo-Afghan, and won the hearts and minds of Afghans receiving a golden sword and the title of the “American Prince”. Like his father, Scott wanted to take the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution to the farthest lands of the world. Following many adventures he joins Prince Ayoub, the hero of the Second Afghan War. Scott travels from Philadelphia across Europe, Russia, Afghanistan, India to the Far East. He returns with lessons learned and truths he discovered and writes them in this book to reach the present and future generations. He regards the American Republic as an indestructible fortress of freedom and democracy that all extremes of left and right factions are inevitably drawn back into the fortress of 'Immortal Ideas'', built by their forefathers with their genius, their fortunes and their lives. Scott believes, as Americans we have never claimed to convert or to rule the world. We just want for others to have the same inalienable rights of life, liberty and pursuit of their own happiness’s. Scott quotes a great American, “The Constitution of the United States is the impassioned and inspired vehicle by which we travel through history. It grew out of the deepest inspiration of our existence that we are here to serve Him by living free. That living free, releases in us the noble impulses and our best abilities so that we use these precious gifts for good and generous purposes and that we will secure them not just only for ourselves and our children but for all mankind.”

About the Author

B.A. Zikria finished college in three years. He graduated from John Hopkins University School of Medicine and specialized in surgery, metabolism, gastroenterology and oncology at Bellevue Hospital and Columbia Presbyterian Medical Centers (CPMC). Dr. Zikria worked as an assistant professor along Professor John Kinney in the Surgical Metabolic Unit in CPMC, and became the first surgical ICU attending. He taught medical students at the Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons (P&S) for more than twenty years and taught interns and residents for forty years. After Columbia University’s association with Harlem Hospital Medical Center in 1967, Dr. Zikria continued serving patients and teaching residents until 2009. Among his most prominent students are Professor Robert Solomon, the youngest chairman of the neurosurgery at CPMC and Dr. Mehmet Oz of Dr. OZ TV Show serving people to live a healthy life. Besides clinical research he also personally performed laboratory in vitro and in-vivio studies, in inhalation injuries, smoke poisoning, sepsis, shock resuscitation and carried out extensive studies in therapy of capillary leak syndrome and pathophysiology of capillary circulation. He has published over seventy peer reviewed medical articles. Prof. Zikria has presented papers and delivered lectures by invitation across the United States, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Holland, Germany, Italy, Turkey and China. Zikria has published several books: “Manuel of Surgical Knots”, “Reperfusion Injuries and Capillary Leak Syndrome”, “One Home, One Family, One Future”, The Afghan Prince and I: The First American in Afghanistan, First Anglo-Afghan War”. He has received a couple of rewards and ten United States Patents concerning teaching aids, macromolecules for sealing capillary leak, fish model for studying capillaries, methods for capillary leak determination, blood volume determination, therapy of capillary leak in post bone marrow transplant, chemotherapy, hemorrhagic viral infections, and method to reduce glycemic index of carbohydrate foods for diabetic and obese patients.