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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

...in Afghanistan. I assist Afghan women on a more informal basis. One Afghan woman was having a terrible time...feed him. So I have Afghan women like that, especially with...Like yesterday, I had a woman sitting here. She was also...
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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

...that the whole subject of women was dangerous territory and...their existence. The role of women was a very sensitive point...the whole war might be about women. Not that it had been a big...the face of a single Afghan woman, not even Ismails wife...shape of a bullet. The tall Afghan doctor pressed a damp hand...remarked over tea that the Afghans, that is the Pashtuns, considered...
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Rhetorics and Politics in Afghan Traditional Storytelling

Book by Margaret A. Mills; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991

Subjects:

Folklore--Political Aspects--Afghanistan, Storytelling--Afghanistan, Tales--Afghanistan--Her?At (Province)

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...configurations of defended domestic privacy and publicly discussed morality that pertain in Afghan Muslim society. For example, I was visiting a woman friend in her home compound during a day when her own children and a stream of neighbor children...
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An Afghan Woman's Odyssey

Book by Farooka Gauhari; University of Nebraska Press, 2004

Subjects:

Afghanistan--Politics And Government--1973-1989, Gauhari, Farooka--1947-, Human Rights--Afghanistan

Collections: History, Entire Library

...countrys most author- itative woman was considered prestigious...in a building called the Afghan-Russian Friendship Building...attended. Among the group of ten women I found three familiar faces...was a short, medium-dark woman who had a thick lock of white...She was a tall, beautiful woman in her mid-twenties. I couldnt...
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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

...case, in the guise of a middle-class German woman living in Istanbul! Yeats-Brown was, in...Y. B. was unable to play a role in the Afghan adventure because of the refusal of the Afghan government to issue an entry visa to a British...

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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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Afghan Women: Recovering, Rebuilding...physical infrastructure of Afghan society. Afghans contend that after having...conflict. The toll of the war on Afghan society reflected in current...They were forced to ride on "women only" public buses, were...or even execution; yet a woman had no right to petition a...
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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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...591,000 of whom were Afghans.(18) five million Afghans have lived as refugees...Approximately 28 percent of the Afghan refugees in Pakistan are adult women, 47 percent are children...employment to needy Afghan refugees. The families...widows and the disabled. Women working in this program...be even greater. The Afghans who return home will...
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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

...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...lobby not just among Afghans but also in the...
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An Afghan Is a Woman

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

Subjects:

Afghanistan, Documentary films, Islam, Sex discrimination, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

An Afghan Is a Woman by Bert Cardullo SEVERAL RECENT...FILMS MADE BY, OR FEATURING, AFGHANS belong to a special genre...represents the first entirely Afghan film, shot entirely in Afghanistan...Until Osama, movies about Afghans were made abroad or just outside...2002), about two young Afghan males trying (perilously...To wit: under Islamic law women could not work, go to school...
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Afghan Refugee Women's Organizations in Pakistan (1980-2001): Struggles in Adversity

Journal article by Niloufar Pourzand; Resources for Feminist Research, Vol. 30, 2003

Subjects:

Afghanis, Pakistan, Refugees, Women, Women's organizations, Womens rights

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...However, there were many Afghan refugee women (especially...their part in support of other Afghan women and their community in general...a larger effort for other Afghans. Sometimes these were linked...in fact, dangerous for an Afghan refugee woman to be active in the public...

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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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...saying, "When women ... are leading...earth. The Azadi Afghan Radio, which has...supporters to speak to Afghans and NGOs about RAWA...about the group. Afghan expatriate activists...RAWA, but both women were initially reluctant...terrifying for many Afghans, he says. In this...brave. But to many Afghan women, RAWAs tactics...
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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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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

...House and Back to School - Afghan Girls and Young Women Are Returning to School in...power in the mid-1990s, women were barred from working and...reconstruction efforts in the battered Afghan capital, while her mother...so poor in some areas that Afghans must spend up to five days...
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The Lost Cuisine of Kabul - While Cooking in Kansas City, an Afghan Woman Recalls the Kitchens and Foodways of Her Childhood

Magazine article by Judith M. Fertig; World and I, Vol. 17, October 2002

Subjects:

Afghans (Asian people)--Food and nutrition, Afghans--Food and nutrition, Cookery--Recipes and menus, Cooking--Recipes and menus, Kabul, Afghanistan--Social aspects

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...Cuisine of Kabul - While Cooking in Kansas City, an Afghan Woman Recalls the Kitchens and Foodways of Her Childhood...a diplomat working for the former King Zahir and the Afghan royalty. Her family lived in the old section of upper...
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An Uneasy Peace : AFGHAN WOMEN ARE FREE OF THE TALIBAN, BUT LIBERATION IS STILL A DISTANT DREAM

Magazine article by Jan Goodwin; The Nation, Vol. 274, April 29, 2002

Subjects:

Afghanistan--Civil rights, Civil rights--Laws, regulations and rules, Ensler, Eve--Donations, Hassan, Nahida--Crimes against, Karzai, Hamid--Laws, regulations and rules, Rape--Afghanistan, Samar, Sima--Social policy, Women--Civil rights

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...violence against women and girls. Some...health and the other woman in the Cabinet...director of the Afghan Womens Journalists...reviled by many Afghans, her support within...statistics, 12 million Afghans--70 percent...only 12 percent of women have access to...thirty minutes an Afghan woman dies from pregnancy...minority." Many Afghans are outraged that...commissions three women. Parlika was head of the Democratic Afghan Womens Association...

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Afghan Women Train as Police to Take on the Taliban

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 11, 2011

Subjects:

Police officers--Training, Police--Training, Working women--Training

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

Afghan Women Train as Police to Take on...Ladies Police Academy. The women, aged from 18 to 33, are...particularly for searching women at checkpoints. On her first...one policewoman found a woman concealing a radio switch...
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Kabul Beauty School Dropout; American Housewife Who Wrote a Bestseller after Convincing Afghan Women to Ditch the Burka - and Get a Brazilian- Flees Kabul with Son in Terror of Her Warlord Husband

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 17, 2007

Subjects:

Beauty salons, Beauty shops, Best sellers, Working women

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

...Who Wrote a Bestseller after Convincing Afghan Women to Ditch the Burka - and Get a Brazilian...her son and hold him for ransom. And the woman credited with having helped oppressed Afghan women make the transition from burka to Brazilian...
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In This Harsh Afghan Desert Community Women Are Hidden Away and Child Brides Sold for $20,000

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), May 19, 2011

Subjects:

Malaria, Opium trade, Women

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

In This Harsh Afghan Desert Community Women Are Hidden Away and Child Brides Sold...no one wants to talk about it." Women are hidden from public view. In two...marine officer told me, "we see women and girls in appalling conditions...
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Taliban Frees Two Women after Afghan Kidnap of 23 South Koreans

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), August 14, 2007

Subjects:

International Committee of the Red Cross, Kidnapping, Koreans, Women

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

Taliban Frees Two Women after Afghan Kidnap of 23 South Koreans. Two women...July were freed yesterday on a rural Afghan roadside and then driven to a US base...dark grey Toyota Corolla driven by an Afghan elder and into one of two waiting Red...
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Hope for Afghan Girls; with U.S. Help, Advancing Lives of Women

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 6, 2006

Subjects:

Islam, Women

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

...Help, Advancing Lives of Women. Byline: Helle Dale, THE...Affairs Paula Dobriansky and Afghan Minister of Foreign Affairs...the university, which hosts Afghan exchange students and which...to the work of the U.S.-Afghan Womens Council, much of it...alone. Today, 80 percent of Afghans have access to some level of...

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