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Books on: (afghan or afghanistan) and women

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Women of the Afghan War

Book by Deborah Ellis; Praeger Publishers, 2000

Subjects:

Afghanistan--History--1989-, Afghanistan--History--Soviet Occupation, 1979-1989--Personal Narratives, Oral History, Taliban, Women--Afghanistan--Social Conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

...stories, in Persian, about Afghan people, in Afghanistan and around the world. I...I am educated. All of us Afghans have a responsibility to the people still in Afghanistan. We cannot be just thinking...the Relief Organization for Afghan Orphans and Widows, ROAOW...We hear sometimes from women inside Afghanistan. I know...
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Repression, Resistance, and Women in Afghanistan

Book by Hafizullah Emadi; Praeger, 2002

Subjects:

Patriarchy--Afghanistan, Women In Development--Afghanistan--History--20th Century, Women In Islam--Afghanistan, Women--Afghanistan--History--20th Century, Women--Afghanistan--Political Activity--History--20th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

Survival. In Afghan Resistance: The Politics...Fundamentalism and the Human Rights of Women . New York: St. Martins...eds.). The Tragedy of Afghanistan: The Social, Cultural...of Fertility Regulation in Afghanistan. In Womens Medicine: A Cross...Tradition and Dynamism Among Afghan Refugees: Report of an ILO...
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With All Our Strength: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan

Book by Anne E. Brodsky; Routledge, 2003

Subjects:

Revolutionary Association Of The Women Of Afghanistan--History, Women In Politics--Afghanistan, Women--Afghanistan--Social Conditions

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...both in-country and refugee Afghan women and the negative mental and...example, found that 69 percent of Afghan women in Afghanistan and in Pakistani refugee camps...hope, and resistance among Afghan women, children, and men...
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Before Taliban: Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad

Book by David B. Edwards; University of California Press, 2002

Subjects:

Afghanistan--History--Saur Revolution, 1978, Afghanistan--History--Soviet Occupation, 1979-1989

Collections: History, Entire Library

...was that while an Afghan connection was...accounts, few Afghans were implicated...Arabs fought in Afghanistan, they were by...the regime forced women to leave schools...life was like in Afghanistan in this protracted...just be the way Afghans really are, the...understanding of the war in Afghanistan by presenting the...stories of three Afghan leaders who played...
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Holy Blood: An Inside View of the Afghan War

Book by Paul Overby; Praeger, 1993

Subjects:

Afghanistan--History--Soviet Occupation, 1979-1989--Personal Narratives, Overby, Paul--Travel--Afghanistan

Collections: History, Entire Library

...of the past seems caught in amber in Afghanistan, the texture of Afghan history might be imagined by looking...sanctuary and peace-making). The honor of women and intense rivalry among cousins (male...to carry on numerous feuds over land, women and money. In other words, a kind of...

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Journal Articles on: (afghan or afghanistan) and women

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Afghan Women: Recovering, Rebuilding

Journal article by Sima Wali; Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 16, 2002

Subjects:

Afghans (Asian people)--Social aspects, Afghans--Social aspects, Muslim women--Civil rights, War on Terrorism, 2001---Social aspects, Women, Muslim--Civil rights

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...States foreign policy in Afghanistan has a long history of misguided...physical infrastructure of Afghan society. Afghans contend that after having...The toll of the war on Afghan society reflected in current...horrific indicators place Afghanistan among the most destitute...were forced to ride on "women only" public buses, were...or even execution; yet a woman had no right to petition...
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Promoting Economic Self-Reliance: A Case Study of Afghan Refugee Women in Pakistan

Journal article by Christina M. Schultz; Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 47, 1994

Subjects:

Afghans in Pakistan--Economic aspects, Economic assistance--Social aspects, Refugees, Afghan--Economic aspects, Women refugees--Economic aspects

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...self-reliance for women. Of the durable solutions...not an option for Afghan refugees. Since the...about 1.2 million Afghans have left Pakistan...refugees to return to Afghanistan. The new government has given millions of Afghan refugees hope that...employment to needy Afghan refugees. The families...and the disabled. Women working in this program...even greater. The Afghans who return home will...to their homes in Afghanistan. Although UNHCR and...
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An Afghan Is a Woman

Journal article by Bert Cardullo; The Hudson Review, Vol. 58, 2005

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Afghanistan, Documentary films, Islam, Sex discrimination, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

An Afghan Is a Woman by Bert Cardullo SEVERAL...are concerned with Afghanistan, which is rare enough...the first entirely Afghan film, shot entirely in Afghanistan, since the rise in...Osama, movies about Afghans were made abroad or...about two young Afghan males trying (perilously...reach the southern Afghanistan city of Kandahar...under Islamic law women could not work, go...
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Restoring the Rights of Afghan Women

Journal article; Social Education, Vol. 66, 2002

Subjects:

Afghanistan--Social aspects, Gross, Nasrine Abou-Bakre--Interviews, Social sciences--Study and teaching, Women's rights--Afghanistan, Women--Interviews

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...away from Kabul. The Afghanistan national radio station...daughter of a French woman married to an Afghan, or of a Russian woman married to an Afghan...people started seeing women without burqas in...advancing the status of Afghan women. Exactly. That is...lobby not just among Afghans but also in the international...treatment of women in Afghanistan is going to be the...
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The Women of Afghanistan

Journal article by Carol Tell; Social Education, Vol. 66, 2002

Subjects:

Afghanistan--Social aspects, Social sciences--Study and teaching, Taliban--Social policy, Women--Social aspects

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...wouldnt get beaten. One woman said, I stayed home...around. We heard that women were beaten for having...restrictions against women in Afghanistan fell into the following...place of the burqa in Afghan culture is complicated...not fully covered. Women doctors were segregated...womens health in Afghanistan has not been good...expectancy for an Afghan woman is 44 years old...health conditions of women living in Kabul under...

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Magazine Articles on: (afghan or afghanistan) and women

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America and Afghanistan: A Troubled History : With the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989, American Interest Quicklly Lapsed, Even Though the Afghan Conflict Had Helped to End the Cold War

Magazine article by Martin Ewans; World and I, Vol. 17, March 2002

Subjects:

Afghan foreign relations--United States, Afghanistan, United States, United States foreign relations--Afghanistan

Collections: History, Entire Library

...by MARTIN EWANS Although Afghanistan won its independence from...century later that the Afghan and U.S. administrations...Following World War II, Afghans were anxious to develop...was allowed to return to Afghanistan, where he trained and organized his Arab Afghans into an international terrorist...notably its treatment of women, aroused strong protest...a close relationship. Afghanistan under the Taliban became...
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Afghanistan and Gladstone's Moral Foreign Policy: Roland Quinault Discusses Gladstone's View of the Second Afghan War Both in Opposition and during His Premiership

Magazine article by Roland Quinault; History Today, Vol. 52, December 2002

Subjects:

Afghan Wars--History, Afghan Wars--Moral and ethical aspects, Afghanistan--History, Gladstone, William--Foreign relations, Gladstone, William--Moral and ethical aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...your hearts as women ... which does...immediate cause of the Afghan war was relatively...exaggerated, fear that Afghanistan would become a...evidence--that women and children had...sympathy for the Afghans. The Liberal Daily...on the place of women in politics, while...opened his mouth on Afghanistan since he had come...money spent on the Afghan war should have...
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Secure Our Rights: Afghan Women

Magazine article; Herizons, Vol. 17, Winter 2004

Subjects:

Afghan Womens Network, Afghanistan, Rights, Women

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Secure Our Rights: Afghan Women Graph Not Transcribed The Afghan Womens Network, striking what it believes is a balance...under 16; making primary education compulsory for all Afghan children, particularly girls; banning the practice of...
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What Do Afghan Women Want? A Dramatic and Militant Afghan Feminist Group Has Captured the West's Imagination. but Does It Offer What the Women of a Shattered Society Need Most?

Magazine article by Noy Thrupkaew; The American Prospect, Vol. 13, August 26, 2002

Subjects:

Afghanistan--Social aspects, Afghans--Political activity, Ensler, Eve--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Feminism--International aspects, Women in politics--International aspects

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...all the prominent Afghan and Afghan-American women I mentioned, saying that...stance hasnt won over many Afghans: One activist calls RAWA...one of the diverse voices of Afghan women." But Rawas radical language...Monologues to Pakistan and Afghanistan--"backfire on people like...
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Out of the House and Back to School - Afghan Girls and Young Women Are Returning to School in Record Numbers

Magazine article by Juliette Terzieff; World and I, Vol. 17, October 2002

Subjects:

Afghanistan--Social aspects, Afghanistan--Social policy, Afghans (Asian people)--Education, Afghans (Asian people)--Social aspects, Afghans--Education, Afghans--Social aspects, Girls--Education, Girls--Social aspects, Muslim women--Education, Muslim women--Social aspects, Women, Muslim--Education, Women, Muslim--Social aspects

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Afghan Girls and Young Women Are Returning to School...other operational schools in Afghanistan are facing serious problems...adds Wright, who says Afghanistan is one of the biggest logistical...efforts in the battered Afghan capital, while her mother...Future hopes "I want Afghanistan to be like other countries...poor in some areas that Afghans must spend up to five days...

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Newspaper Articles on: (afghan or afghanistan) and women

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Afghan Blast Left Me Terrified of Water. Now I'm on the Mend; THE INJURY TOLL OF THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN IS GROWING, AND THE AFTERMATH OF THE IRAQ WAR CONTINUES TO TAKE ITS TOLL. BUT AT A LITTLE-KNOWN REHABILITATION CENTRE IN SOUTH WALES, VITAL WORK IS BEING DONE TO HELP OUR INJURED SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN RECOVER. PETER COLLINS REPORTS

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), June 11, 2010

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Iraq War, 2003-

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Afghan Blast Left Me Terrified of...INJURY TOLL OF THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN IS GROWING, AND THE AFTERMATH...OUR INJURED SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN RECOVER. PETER COLLINS REPORTS...severely injured servicemen and women from Wales and elsewhere...roadside bomb explosion in Afghanistan which killed his commanding...
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Girl, 8, Sold to Afghan Police Officer as His Bride; ON THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST AIRSTRIKES TO DRIVE OUT THE TALIBAN AND LIBERATE WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN, A SHOCKING REVELATION ..

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 6, 2011

Subjects:

Police officers--Laws, regulations and rules, Police--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Girl, 8, Sold to Afghan Police Officer as His Bride...OUT THE TALIBAN AND LIBERATE WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN, A SHOCKING REVELATION...being sold as child brides in Afghanistan, despite laws banning the...that symbolises the plight of Afghan girls. Her story vividly...
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Defence Cuts to Fund New Equipment for Afghan War; 1 RoyalWelsh Back in Afghanistan

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), December 16, 2009

Subjects:

Afghanistan. National Army, Mechanization, Military--Military aspects, Military equipment--Military aspects, Military paraphernalia--Military aspects, Military personnel--Military aspects, Military personnel--Training, Military training--Military aspects, Soldiers--Military aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...also expected. Forces in Afghanistan will benefit from more body...troops to be deployed to Afghanistan - arrived in the country...including the mentoring of the Afghan National Army and police...send an extra 500 troops to Afghanistan. In October Gordon Brown...our brave servicemen and women, supported by MoD civilians...
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Teaching Afghans to Fight Back; Welsh Soldiers Are Playing a Key Role in Mentoring the Afghan National Army, Whose Troops Will One Day Take Responsibility for Their Country's Security from Nato's International Security Assistance Force. in the Second of His Western Mail Reports from Afghanistan, Ben Glaze Meets Two South Wales Servicemen Teaching the Latest Afghan Recruits

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), January 26, 2010

Subjects:

Afghanistan. National Army

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Teaching Afghans to Fight Back; Welsh...Role in Mentoring the Afghan National Army, Whose...Western Mail Reports from Afghanistan, Ben Glaze Meets Two...Teaching the Latest Afghan Recruits. Byline...on the frontline in Afghanistan know all too well the...Province. The sooner Afghan National Army (ANA...British servicemen and women can leave the dangerous...
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Mother's Day Is Unbearable. I Am Still a Mother, It's Just I Am without a Child. Sarah Used to Send Me Flowers. Now I Take Yellow Roses to Her Grave; the Mother of the First Woman Soldier Killed in Afghanistan Talks with Dignity, Pride and Deep Sadness about the Grief of Losing Her Only Child

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), March 14, 2010

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Afghan foreign relations--Casualties, Afghan foreign relations--Military aspects, Afghan foreign relations--Personal narratives, Soldiers--Casualties, Soldiers--Military aspects, Soldiers--Personal narratives, Women and the military--Casualties, Women and the military--Military aspects, Women and the military--Personal narratives, Women military personnel--Casualties, Women military personnel--Military aspects, Women military personnel--Personal narratives

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the Mother of the First Woman Soldier Killed in Afghanistan Talks with Dignity, Pride...for a six-month tour in Afghanistan. I wont take it down until...servicewoman to die in the Afghan conflict. After Sarah was...to a photo opportunity in Afghanistan. That didnt seem to me to...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: (afghan or afghanistan) and women

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Afghanistan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...rest (half of whom must be women) appointed by the president...developed civilizations in S Afghanistan in prehistoric times, but...The Muslim conquest of Afghanistan began in the 7th cent...lieutenant, Ahmad Shah , an Afghan tribal leader, established...covering most of present-day Afghanistan. His dynasty, the Durrani, gave the Afghans the name (Durrani) that...
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Pakistan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...center on the line between Afghanistan and the Indus valley. East...would incorporate parts of Afghanistan and Iran. Punjabis reside...with 60 seats reserved for women and 10 for non-Muslims...Indus plain and much of Afghanistan. After the fall of the...the late 1730s; by the Afghans, who held Sind and the...northwest during the First Afghan War (1839 42) and succeeded...
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Iran

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...was brought about by the Afghans, who overthrew the weak...in 1722. An interval of Afghan rule followed until Nadir...Empire, was taken by the Afghans. A series of campaigns to...the British on behalf of Afghanistan and resulted in the recognition of Afghan independence by Iran in 1857...and subsequent elections. Women received the right to vote...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...that increased the power of women and minority groups in the...response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Carter also organized a boycott...running mate; she was the first woman to gain a major partys vice...Sandra Day OConnor , the first woman to serve on the high court...
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Great Britain

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...agricultural laborers. (Women could not vote until 1918...frontier wars in Africa and Afghanistan, and became the largest shareholder...involved Britain in Egypt, Afghanistan, and Uganda. Gladstones...launching attacks against Afghanistan after the Taliban government...

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