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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

...Resource Center, 194 , 196 - 198 Afghan Womens Society, 5 , 165 Amanullah...Chechnya, 24 , 25 Committee for Afghan Women, 10 Cooperation Center for Afghanistan...Denisov, Slava, 10 Dental Clinic for Afghan Refugees, 101 - 102 Department of...
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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

though women were by now highly visible in public places...typified the attitude of a majority of Afghan women who, despite their awareness of the importance...against the codes prescribed for women in Afghan etiquette. Although the society by now...
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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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...imposed on this scene. Indeed, Afghan women are expected by their men to be at...Adel Khan." Karim portrays good women as humiliated into speechlessness...precisely the vociferousness of old women which has gotten the old lady into...
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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

...WTs manifested little discernible interest in Afghanistan or Afghans. Foremost in most of their minds was hashish which was plentiful...turban or the all-enveloping burqa veil that traditional Afghan women wore. To the contrary, my nearest exposure to the exotic...
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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

...succeeded in convincing the average Afghan that reform was in his best...incredible series of blunders. Afghan tradition, for instance, does not permit calling women by their names in front of...columns for the names of the women and their ages. 29 Interfering...likely to please many country Afghans, whose custom it was never...

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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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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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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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Research on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Beliefs and Traditions among Afghan Refugees

Journal article; The Journal of Sex Research, Vol. 43, 2006

Subjects:

Afghan refugees--Health aspects, Afghan refugees--Psychological aspects, Afghan refugees--Sexual behavior, Refugees, Afghan--Health aspects, Refugees, Afghan--Psychological aspects, Refugees, Afghan--Sexual behavior, Reproductive rights--Analysis

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...in beliefs and values of the Afghan society. In this project...traditions and their roots among Afghan refugees. Then we prepared...questionnaires were completed by Afghan participants in six areas of...psychological status in pregnant women; large families and a lack...

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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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Women Must Lead Afghan Government Back to Democracy

Magazine article by Cindy Hanford; National NOW Times, Vol. 34, Spring 2002

Subjects:

Afghanistan, Feminism, Future, Government, Women

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...During that time, Afghan women served in parliament, as cabinet...emphasized for both men and women, but it was nonetheless the...1996 and the conditions for women declined dramatically. Rape...violence became widespread. Many Afghans, particularly women, supported...played in the subjugation of Afghan women by assisting the mujahideen...

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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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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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Afghanistan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...half of whom must be women) appointed by the president...lieutenant, Ahmad Shah , an Afghan tribal leader, established...the Durrani, gave the Afghans the name (Durrani...frequently use. The Afghan Wars and Independence...policy caused the first Afghan War (1838 42) between the British and the Afghans. Dost Muhammad was...
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Pakistan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...with 60 seats reserved for women and 10 for non-Muslims...in the late 1730s; by the Afghans, who held Sind and the Punjab...northwest during the First Afghan War (1839 42) and succeeded...tribespeople in the Second Afghan War (1878 80) but were still...and six seats reserved for women, who had previously been denied...
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Iran

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...dynasty was brought about by the Afghans, who overthrew the weak shah...in 1722. An interval of Afghan rule followed until Nadir Shah...Persian Empire, was taken by the Afghans. A series of campaigns to...resulted in the recognition of Afghan independence by Iran in 1857...and subsequent elections. Women received the right to vote...

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