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On the frontlines of the war with ISIS/ISIL/Daesh, everyone agreed: the true crisis was economic - involving entrepreneurship and sustainability. Click here to read. https://extreme-entrepreneurship.com/about-me daily 0.75 2021-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd57d26fdb39c21462355f2/1608084914789-S51OWG1AREFM25TFT0R4/2020+Portrait+in+Tobago.jpg About me - Associate Profesor, Babson College When I started teaching in 2005, I realized I should learn something about life outside the United States. This book is a collection of some of my student's’ favorite stories of people making start-ups work in some of the 120 countries that I’ve visited. 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I visited in 2010 with a colleague keen on meeting the Kalash, a unique religious and ethnic minority in the Hindu Kush mountain range along the Afghan border, a region now garnering attention as a flashpoint on the frontlines of climate change. Our trek to visit the Kalash began in Lahore, the home of my college friend, attorney, and environmental activist Ahmad “Rafay” Alam, whose wife, Aysha Raja, opened the bookstore, The Last Word, in Lahore in 2007. Image: Shahi Mosque, Chitral, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd57d26fdb39c21462355f2/1615858335427-VZRR1QXFW1ZCBKBG4VSM/Lahore+political+demonstration%2C+AJS%2C+2010.JPG Pakistan Last Word Books - The several years preceding our visit in 2010 were a less than safe and stable time. Parts of the country had been under militant control, and terror attacks, including in Islamabad and Lahore, had claimed thousands of lives. 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