Afghanistan

Nonfiction
Afghan frontier: feuding and fighting in Central Asia. Schofield, Victoria. London : Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2009. DS356 .S364 2009 The Afghans. Vogelsang, W.J. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. DS358 .V64 2002 Afghanistan. Clammer, Paul. London: Lonely Planet, 2007. Travel DS351 .A355 2007 Afghanistan: aid, armies and empires. Marsden, Peter. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. DS371.412 .M37 2009 Afghanistan: a companion and guide. Omrani, Bijan. New York : W. W. Norton [distributor], 2005. Travel DS351 .A35 2005 Afghanistan: a cultural and political history. Barfield, Thomas. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. Afghanistan: a military history from Alexander the Great to the war against the Taliban. Tanner, Stephen. Philadelphia: Da Capo, 2009. DS356 .T27 2009 Afghanistan: a modern history: monarchy, despotism or democracy? the problems of governance in the Muslim tradition. Rasanayagam, Angelo. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2003. DS361 .R37 2003 Afghanistan: the mirage of peace. Johnson, Chris. New York: Zed Books, 2008. DS371.3 .J64 2008 Afghanistan's political stability: a dream unrealized. Qassem, Ahmad Shayeq. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. DS357.5 .Q37 2009 After the Taliban: nation-building in Afghanistan. Dobbins, James. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2008. DS371.4 .D63 2008 Aid during conflict : interaction between military and civilian assistance providers in Afghanistan, September 2001-June 2002. Oliker, Olga. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2004. DS371.415 .A36 2004 A bed of red flowers: in search of my Afghanistan. Pazira, Nelofer. New York: Free Press, 2005. LRC DS371.2 .P42 2005 Behind the burqa: our life in Afghanistan and how we escaped to freedom. Yasgur, Batya Swift. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2002. LRC DS371.3 .Y37 2002
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Beyond reconstruction in Afghanistan: lessons from development experience. Montgomery, John Dickey. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. HC417 .B49 2004 Blind chickens and social animals: creating spaces for Afghan women's narratives under the Taliban. Pont, Anna M. Portland, OR: Mercy Corps, 2001. HQ1735.6 .P65 2001 The bookseller of Kabul. Seierstad, sne. Boston: Little, Brown, 2003. LRC CT1877.5 .K48 S45 2003 Conflict in Afghanistan: a historical encyclopedia. Clements, Frank. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2003. DS356 .C58 2003 Culture and customs of Afghanistan. Emadi, Hafizullah. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. DS351.5 .E53 2005 Descent into chaos: the United States and the failure of nation building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. Rashid, Ahmed. New York: Viking, 2008. DS371.4 .R37 2008 English-Dari phrasebook for aid workers. Powers, Robert F. Seattle, WA: Rodnik Pub., 2006. Language PK6379 .P69 2006 The future of Afghanistan. Thier, J. Alexander. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2009. DS371.4 .T55 2009 Gender and international aid in Afghanistan: the politics and effects of intervention. Abirafeh, Lina. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2009. HQ1236.5 .A3 A25 2009 Ghost wars: the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001. Coll, Steve. New York: Penguin Press, 2004. DS371.2 .C63 2004 Good Morning Afghanistan: the true story. Mahmood, Waseem. London: Eye Books, 2007. PN1991.3 .A27 M36 2007 A guide to government in Afghanistan. Evans, Anne. Washington, DC: World Bank; Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghanistan Research and Evalution Unit, 2004. JQ1765 .G85 2004 In the graveyard of empires: America's war in Afghanistan. Jones, Seth G. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2009. DS371.412 .J665 2009 Invisible history: Afghanistan's untold story. Fitzgerald, Paul. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2009. DS357.5 .F58 2009 Islamist networks: the Afghan-Pakistan connection. Abou Zahab, Mariam. London: Hurst & Company, 2004. BP173.7 .A26513 2004 Kabul Beauty School: an American woman goes behind the veil. Rodriguez, Deborah. New York: Random House, 2007 LRC HQ1735.6 .R63 2007 Love and war in Afghanistan. Klaits, Alex. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005. DS371.2 .K577 2005 My forbidden face: growing up under the Taliban: a young woman's story. Latifa. New York: Hyperion, 2001. LRC HQ1735.6.Z75 L3813 2001 My life with the Taliban. Zaeef, Abdul Salam. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. LRC DS371.33 .Z34 A3 2010

Nation-building unraveled?: aid, peace and justice in Afghanistan. Donini, Antonio. Bloomfield, CT : Kumarian Press, 2004. DS371.4 .N37 2004 Opium season : a year on the Afghan frontier. Hafvenstein, Joel. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2007. DS371.4 .H32 2007 The places in between. Stewart, Rory. London: Picador, 2004. DS352 .S749 2004 The punishment of virtue: inside Afghanistan after the Taliban. Chayes, Sarah. New York: Penguin Press, 2006. DS371.4 .C43 2006 The other war: winning and losing in Afghanistan. Neumann, Ronald E. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2009. DS371.43 .N48 A3 2009 Pashtun tales: from the Pakistan-Afghan frontier. Ahmad, Aisha. London: Saqi, 2008. LRC GR302.2 .P85 P85 2008 Reconstructing Afghanistan. Bennett, Adam. Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund, 2005. HC417 .R43 2005 Reconstructing agriculture in Afghanistan. Pain, Adam. Warwickshire, UK: Practical Action Publishing: FAO, 2007. S471 .A3 R43 2007 Revolution unending: Afghanistan, 1979 to the present. Dorronsoro, Gilles. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. DS371.2 .D69313 2005 The search for security in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Hodes, Cyrus. New York: Routledge, 2007. U162 .A3 NO.391 Seeds of terror : how heroin is bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda. Peters, Gretchen. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2009. HV5840 .A23 P48 2009 The sewing circles of Herat : a personal voyage through Afghanistan. Lamb, Christina. New York: HarperCollins, 2004. LRC DS352 .L35 2004 Shadow of the Silk Road. Thubron, Colin. New York: Harper Perennial, 2008. DS327.7 .T48 2008 Stones into schools : promoting peace with books, not bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mortenson, Greg. New York: Viking, 2009. LC2330 .M66 2009 The story of my life : an Afghan girl on the other side of the sky. Ahmedi, Farah. New York: Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2005. LRC HV640.4 .U54 A3 2005 Subnational administration in Afghanistan : assessment and recommendations for action. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2004. JQ1765 .S8 2004 The Taliban : war and religion in Afghanistan. Marsden, Peter. New York: Zed Books, 2002. DS371.2 .M373 2002 The Taliban and the crisis of Afghanistan. Crews, Robert D. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. DS371.3 .T354 2008 Three cups of tea : one man's mission to promote peace-- one school at a time. Mortenson, Greg. New York: Penguin Books, 2007. LRC LC2330 .M67 2007

Toughing it out in Afghanistan. O'Hanlon, Michael E. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2010. DS371.412 .O37 2010 Veiled courage: inside the Afghan women's resistance. Benard, Cheryl. New York: Broadway Books, 2002. HQ1236.5.A3 B45 2002 The wake of war : encounters with the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. Nivat, Anne. Boston: Beacon Press, 2005. DS371.4 .N5813 2005 The war after the war: strategic lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan. Cordesman, Anthony H. Washington, DC: CSIS Press, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2004. DS79.76 .C677 2004 With all our strength: the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. Brodsky, Anne E. New York: Routledge, 2004. HQ1236.5 .A3 B763 2004 A woman among warlords : the extraordinary story of an Afghan who dared to raise her voice. Brodsky, Anne E. New York: Routledge, 2004. LRC DS371.43 .J69 A3 2009 Women and education in Iran and Afghanistan : an annotated bibliography of sources in English, 1975-2003. Shavarini, Mitra K. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005. Z7963.E2 S52 2005 Women for Afghan women : shattering myths and claiming the future. Mehta, Sunita. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. HQ1735.6 .W654 2002 Zoya's story : an Afghan woman's struggle for freedom. Zoya. New York: Perennial, 2002. LRC DS371.3 .Z69 2002

Fiction
Burnt shadows. Shamsie, Kamila. Toronto: Bond Street Books, 2009. LRC PR9540.9 .S485 B87 2009 Caravans: a novel of Afghanistan. Michener, James A. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003. LRC PS3525 .I19 C37 2003 The kite runner. Hosseini, Khaled. New York: Riverhead Books, 2003. LRC PS3608.O832 K58 2003 A thousand splendid suns. Hosseini, Khaled. New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. LRC PS3608 .O832 K58 2007

Films
Back to school in Afghanistan: the ongoing struggle to educate the world's children. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2006. DVD LC67.D44 .B35 2006 The Bread Winner. Afghanistan World Foundation, 2007. DVD HV804 .B74 2007 Daughters of Afghanistan. Benger, Robin. Choices, Inc., 2004. DVD DS371.4 .D38 2004 Enemies of happiness. Women Make Movies, 2006. DVD HQ1735.6 .E54 2006

Hell of a nation: pulling Afghani democracy from the fire. WNET, 2004. DVD DS371.4 .H45 2004 Frontrunner: the Afghan woman who surprised the world. Cinema Guild, 2008. DVD HC154 .L54 2008 The kite runner. DVD. Paramount Home Entertainment, 2008. DVD PN1995.9 .S87 K584 2008 Motherland Afghanistan. First-Run Features, 2007. DVD RG530.3 .A3 M68 2007 Return of the Taliban. PBS Video, 2006. DVD DS371.412 .R47 2006 Rise: revolutionary women re-envisioning Afghanistan. Witness, 2004. DVD HQ1236.5 .A3 R57 2004

Language
Dari
Beginner's Dari (Persian). Wahab, Shaista. New York: Hippocrene Books, 2004. LRC PK6873 .W34 2004 Dari: Dari-English, English Dari dictionary & phrasebook. Awde, Nicholas. New York: Hippocrene Books, 2002. LRC PK6876 .A95 2002 Dari familiarization course. Latify, Hafiz. Washington, DC: Dept. of State, National Foreign Affairs Training Center, 2002. LRC PK6873 .L38 2002 English-Dari phrasebook for aid workers. Powers, Robert F. Seattle, WA: Rodnik Pub, 2006. LRC PK6379 .P69 2006 Spoken Dari. Latifi, A. Hafiz. Washington, DC: Dept. of State, Foreign Service Institute, 1980. LRC PK6873 .L38 1980

Pashto
Introduction to Pushtu : an official language of Afghanistan : Romanized. Khan, Rahimullah, qazi. New York, NY: Hippocrene Books, 2002. LRC PK6723 .K43 2002 Learn Pashto. London: EuroTalkinteractive, 2003. LRC PK6725 .P87 2003 Pashto: Pashto-English, English-Pashto dictionary & phrasebook. Awde, Nicholas. New York: Hippocrene Books, 2002. LRC PK6791 .A93 2002 Rosetta stone. Pashto. Level 1. Harrisonburg, VA: Fairfield Language Technologies, 2004. LRC PK6727.5 .P37 R67 2004 LEVEL 1 Rosetta Stone Online (Inquire at library reference desk or ksc@usaid.gov)