STUDY GUIDE
There will be six components of A Study Guide to Afghanistan:
1) Bibliography (topically arranged and annotated) (see below)
2) Maps
3) Videos
4) Study Centers
5) Aid Organizations (click here)
6) Projects (click here)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CONTENTS
(click on the topic to go there):
(1) ADULT NONFICTION
(a) Art
(d) Military
(e) Travel
(f) Women
(2) ADULT FICTION
Auboyer, Jeannine (1968). The Art of Afghanistan. Feltham, Middlesex, Great Britain: Hamlyn Publishing Group (mostly photos and captions; seems extensive)
Rowland, Benjamin, Jr. (1976). Ancient Art from Afghanistan: Treasures of the Kabul Museum. NY:Arno Press/Ayer Company Publishers
Center for Economic and Social Rights (2002). Afghanistan Fact Sheets #1, #2, and #3. Brooklyn, NY: (author) (available at web site: www.cesr.org)
Cooley, John K.
(2000). Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism (rev.
ed.). Sterling, VA: Pluto Press (gives the CIA involvemen; good exposé)
Goodson, Larry P. (2001). Afghanistan’s Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban. Seattle: University of Washington Press
Rashid, Ahmed
(2000). Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia.
New Haven, CN: Yale University Press Press (experienced correspondent; well
recommended)
The Afghanistan Studies Journal, Vol #1 to Vol. #5 (1988-1997). Center for Afghan Studies, University of Nebraska at Omaha (see www.unomaha.edu/~world/cas)
Anderson, Ewan W. & Nancy Hatch Dupree (1990). The Cultural Basis of Afghan Nationalism. NY: St. Martin’s Press
Ansary, Tamim (2002). West of Kabul, East of New York. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Dupree, Louis (1980, 1997). Afghanistan. NY: Oxford University Press
Easwaran, Eknath (1999). Nonviolent Soldier of Islam: Badshah Khan, a Man to Match His Mountains. Tomales, CA: Nilgiri Press (wonderful story about Pushtuns but very little specifically about Afghanistan)
Ewans, Martin (2002). Afghanistan: A Short History of its People and Politics. NY: HarperCollins
Gladstone, Cary (Ed.) (2001). Afghanistan: History, Issues, Bibliography. Huntington, NY: Novinka Books/Nova Science Publishers
Gopal, D. &
M. A. Qureshi (1987). Science, Technology and Development in Afghanistan.
New Delhi: Navrang (detailed data; information on development strategies)
Grassmuck, George, Ludwig W. Adamec, & Frances H. Irwin (Eds.) (1969). Afghanistan: Some New Approaches. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan (good but old; includes bibliography and a useful chronology of Afghan history to 1969)
Hanifi, Mohammed Jamil (1982). Annotated Bibliography of Afghanistan (4th ed., rev.). New Haven, CN: HRAF Press
Mousavi, Sayed Askar (1997). The Hazaras of Afghanistan: An Historical, Cultural, Economic and Political Study. NY: St. Martin’s Press
Nyrop, Richard F. & Donald M. Seekins (1986). Afghanistan: A Country Study. Washington DC: American University (looks like a good study but slightly dated)
Poullada, Leon B. & Leila D. J. Poullada (1995). The Kingdom of Afghanistan and the United States. Omaha, NE: Center for Afghan Studies (good details up to 1973)
Rubin, Barnett
R. (1995). The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in
the International System. New Haven: Yale University Press (good detail
of events up to early 1994, before the rise of the Taliban)
Saberi, Helen (2000). Afghan Food and Cookery: Noshe Djan. NY: Hippocrene Books (extensive; specifically Afghan; looks well done)
Shah, Sirdar Ikbal Ali (1982). Afghanistan of the Afghans. London: Octagon Press
Waller, John W. (1990). Beyond the Khyber Pass: The Road to British Disaster in the First Afghan War. NY: Random House (many useful details)
Bonner, Arthur
(1987). Among the Afghans. Durham, NC: Duke University Press (NYT war
correspondent, 1985-87)
Elliot, Jason (2001). Elliot, Jason (2001). An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan. NY: Picador
Gauhari, Farooka (1996). Searching for Saleem: An Afghan Woman’s Odyssey. Omaha, NE: University of Nebraska Press (war journal)
Hodson, Peregrine (1986). Under A Sickle Moon: A Journey Through Afghanistan. NY: Atlantic Monthly Press
Klass, Rosanne (1990). The Great Game Revisited (rev. ed.). ???:University Press of America
Lessing, Doris (1987). The Wind Blows Away Our Words. NY: Random House
Yermakov, Oleg (1991). Afghan Tales: Stories from Russia’s Vietnam. Translated by Marc Romano. NY: William Morrow
Chaffetz, David (1981). A Journey Through Afghanistan: A Memorial. Chicago: Regnery Gateway (informal but detailed description of life in the northern part of the country)
Cresson, Os
(2002). We Felt Their Kindliness: An American Family’s Afghan Odyssey
(1949-1951). Haddonfield NJ: Emerald Pademelon Press (being sent to
donors to AFSC’s Afghan Relief Fund, for more information click here)
Dehghani, Yavar
(2001). Farsi (Persian) Phrasebook. Footscray, Australia: Lonely Planet (compact;
everything the traveler would need in Iran but remains to be seen how well it
applies to Dari, the Persian spoken in Afghanistan)
Klass, Rosanne (1964). Land of the High Flags: A Travel-Memoir of Afghanistan. NY: Random House (she taught in Darul Mo’Allamein 1951-1954; later did book on current political situation (see above); gives daily events in her life)
Girardet, Edward & Jonathan Walter (1998). Afghanistan (Essential Field Guides to Humanitarian and Conflict Zones). Geneva: International Center for Humanitarian Reporting (a useful, fairly new guidebook)
Mayhew,
Bradley, Richard Plunkett, & Simon Richmond (1996, 2000). Central Asia.
Footscray, Australia: Lonely Planet (has a nine-page chapter on Afghanistan)
Michaud, Roland
& Sabrina Michaud (1978). Caravans to Tartary. NY: Viking Press (many
beautiful color pictures; useful introduction; brief captions; gives a good
sense of the country; describes the same caravan trip as the children’s book, Caravans,
by Lawrence McKay, Jr.)
Michaud, Roland and Sabrina (1980). Afghanistan: Paradise Lost. NY: Vendome Press (many beautiful color pictures; useful introduction; brief captions; gives a good sense of the country)
Newby, Eric
(1958, 1998). A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush. Footscray, Australia:
Lonely Planet (limited to Nuristan; said to be a classic; preface by Evelyn
Waugh)
Rudelson, Justin Jon (1998). Central Asia Phrasebook. Footscray, Australia: Lonely Planet (covers Uyghur, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Kazakh, Pashto, Tajik, and briefly 10 other languages)
Stark, Freya
(1970). The Minaret of Djam: An Excusion in Afghanistan. London: John
Murray (gives details of the experiences of a woman traveling in Afghanistan)
Toynbee, Arnold J. (1961). Between Oxus and Jumna. NY: Oxford University Press (good descriptions of places where historical events occurred; not much on people and customs)
Doubleday, Veronica (1988). Three Women of Herat. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press (the author formed special friendships with three women and describes them sensitively)
Grima, Benedicte (1992). Performance of Emotion Among Paxtun Women (Modern Middle East, No. 17) Austin: University of Texas Press (compares the women’s Pashtun culture with the more widely reported men’s; the author was there; said to be good anthropology study)
Latifa, with Shekeba Hachemi (2002). My Forbidden Face, Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman’s Story. NY: Talk Miramax Books/Hyperion
Zoya, with John Follain & Rita Cristofari (2002). Zoya’s Story: An Afghan Woman’s Struggle for Freedom. NY: William Morrow
Michener, James A. (1963). Caravans. NY: Random House (quite accurate)
Shah, Safia (Ed.) (1990). Afghan Caravan. London: Octagon Press (good resource on Afghan folktales; some nonfiction such as memoirs, cooking, etc.)
Ali, Sharifah Enayat (1995). Afghanistan (Cultures of the World Series). NY: Marshall Cavendish (medium complexity; a lot of good color pictures)
Clifford, Mary
Louise (1989). The Land and People of Afghanistan (Portraits of the
Nations Series). NY: J. B. Lippincott (complete; high grade level; black
& white)
Cruit, Bette J. (1968). The Land of the Afghans: A Book for Children (Big and Little). Kabul: Education Press (good but hard to obtain)
Foster, Leila Merrell (1996). Afghanistan (Enchantment of the World Series). NY: Children’s Press (simpler; a lot of good color pictures)
Lerner
Publications, Department of Geography Staff (Ed.) (1997). Afghanistan in
Pictures (Visual Geography Series). Minneapolis: (author) (complete;
medium complexity; a lot of good color pictures)
Spiegelman, Judith M. (1969). Shaer of Afghanistan. NY: Julian Messner/Simon & Schuster (excellent day-in-the-life; medium complexity; many black & white pictures)
Ellis, Deborah
(2001). The Breadwinner. Toronto: Douglas McIntyre (set in Kabul
under the Taliban; realistic depiction of violence)
Khan, Rukhsana
(1998). The Roses in My Carpets. NY: Holiday House (lots of drawings
and few words; set in an Afghan refugee camp; realistic depiction of violence)
McKay,
Lawrence, Jr. (1995). Caravan. NY: Lee & Low Books (a boy’s first
winter caravan trip to market in the far northeast of Afghanistan; see Michaud
& Michaud, 1978)
Shah, Amina
(1982). Tales of Afghanistan. London: Octagon Press (authentic Afghan
children’s folk tales)
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