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The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan

Book by Robert D. Crews, Amin Tarzi; Harvard University Press, 2008

Subjects:

Afghanistan--History--1989-2001, Afghanistan--History--2001-, Taliban

Collections: History, Entire Library

...a staged punishment of a woman, this time an execution. She says that a woman, Zarmina, was accused...a payment of money. The Taliban officials, however, discussed...escorted by two other women. Taliban women. All three were covered...
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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

among women. They have the stress of being stuck...is an increase in depression among women living under the Taliban. Women who would like to work, to...other things, cannot, because the Taliban prevent them. There is a high rate...
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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

...province of Khost has demanded of Taliban authorities to hand over the...least 6 persons, including a woman, were killed and 2 women injured in fighting between a local tribe and Taliban officials in Khost on Wednesday...fighting game, they said. Taliban officials stopped the children...
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Sport and Women: Social Issues in International Perspective

Book by Ilse Hartmann-Tews, Gertrud Pfister; Routledge, 2003

Subjects:

Sports For Women--Cross-Cultural Studies, Sports--Sex Differences--Cross-Cultural Studies, Sports--Social Aspects--Cross-Cultural Studies

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...We are here to say Afghan women are alive and want an active...anti-Islamic behaviour of the Taliban against women in the name of Islam. 21 The...was a performance given by a woman singer, since up to that time women were
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Women Embracing Islam: Gender and Conversion in the West

Book by Karin Van Nieuwkerk; University of Texas Press, 2006

Subjects:

Gender Identity--Europe, Muslim Converts From Christianity--Europe, Muslim Women--Europe, Sex Role--Religious Aspects--Islam, Women In Islam--Europe

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Islam is a religion that discriminates against women: People see pictures of how the Taliban treat women in Afghanistan and think that all Muslim women are treated this way. A recently converted woman told me: My parents were afraid that I was...

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Journal Articles on: taliban women

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Women of Afghanistan in the Post-Taliban Era

Journal article by Irina Gambs; Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 63, 2009

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Women of Afghanistan in the Post-Taliban Era (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

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Women of Afghanistan in the Post-Taliban Era. by Irina Gambs Rosemarie Skaine...Women of Afghanistan in the Post-Taliban Era attempts to evaluate changes...Afghanistans women since the fall of the Taliban. Despite the books dense documentation...
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Reconstruction in Post-taliban Afghanistan: Women and Education

Journal article by Hayat Alvi; Resources for Feminist Research, Vol. 30, 2003

Subjects:

Afghanistan, Islam, Postwar reconstruction, Women, Women's education

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

...single Afghan refugee woman (who constitute the...ventures.(8) The Taliban also made every effort to cut off women from any income source...from the shadows of the Taliban, Afghan women and men...Yet even in the post-Taliban era, it is not reassuring...posts have been given to women, and one of these ministers...replaced by another woman for that post, but...
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Should the United States Officially Recognize the Taliban? the International Legal and Political Considerations

Journal article by Christopher L. Gadoury; Houston Journal of International Law, Vol. 23, 2001

Subjects:

Afghanistan--Politics and government, Recognition (International law)--Planning, Taliban--Political activity

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...protected by the Taliban and promote further abuse to Afghan women.(258) One woman was fatally beaten...can now treat women, as long as the woman does not object.(269) The Taliban have also eased restrictions on women working.(270...
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Unlawful Instruments and Goods: Afghanistan, Culture and the Taliban

Journal article by Jim Shorthose; Capital & Class, 2003

Subjects:

Afghanistan, Culture, Social impact, Social policy, Taliban-Afghanistan

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...prescriptions characterized as Taliban cultural policy stem...political rule of the Taliban. For example, the cultural position of women and the denial of their...an Afghan director. Women faced the most severe...oppression under the Taliban regime, so it is perhaps...
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The Taliban: an Organizational Analysis

Journal article by Shahid Afsar, Chris Samples, Thomas Wood; Military Review, Vol. 88, 2008

Subjects:

Afghanistan, Armed forces, Influence, Military history, Minority & ethnic groups, Religion, Taliban-Afghanistan, Terrorism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...of Islamic law. The Taliban banned television, music...dancing; prohibited women from attending school...bin-Laden, and the Taliban hosted Al-Qaeda training...violates the honor of a woman in the family, revenge...infraction occurs. The Taliban has used badal to recruit...

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Magazine Articles on: taliban women

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Speaking from Behind the Veil: A Foreign-Aid Worker's Latest Book Explores the Roles and Worldviews of Rural Afghani Women Who Lived in the Shadow of the Fundamentalist Taliban Regime

Magazine article by Diana Ray; Insight on the News, Vol. 17, December 24, 2001

Subjects:

Blind Chickens and Social Animals (Book)--Evaluation, Pont, Anna M.--Authorship, Taliban--Laws, regulations, etc., Women--Care and treatment

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...spaces, one can observe women bending the rules. Walking...Prevention of Vice. One woman boldly placed herself...back and laughed, `The Taliban dont like this!" According...findings, even the age of a woman played a part in how bound she was to Taliban edicts. As 70-year...move alone. Now, young women cant travel alone from...
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When Foreign Intervention Is Justified Women under the Taliban

Magazine article by Rose V. Lindgren; The Humanist, Vol. 62, July 2002

Subjects:

Afghanistan--Social aspects, Muslim women--Civil rights, Taliban--Social policy, Women's rights--Afghanistan, Women, Muslim--Civil rights

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...that their policy for women emanated directly from...and culture. "If a woman wants to work away from...Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, Taliban Minister of Justice...percent to 98 percent of women in Taliban-controlled...a committee of five women to be responsible for...toward building a post-Taliban government, the Northern...by Amena Afzali, a woman. This amazing leap...
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RAWA: Women Standing Up to the Taliban

Magazine article by John Elvin; Insight on the News, Vol. 17, September 24, 2001

Subjects:

Afghanistan--Foreign relations, Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan--Management, Taliban--Social aspects, bin Laden, Osama--Foreign relations

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RAWA: Women Standing Up to the Taliban by John Elvin Guilt by association...government is content with giving his Taliban hosts nothing more than an economic...plots. And that says nothing of Taliban behavior toward citizens and guests...
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Underground against the Taliban

Magazine article by Katha Pollitt; The Nation, Vol. 270, May 29, 2000

Subjects:

Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan--Political activity, Taliban--Ethical aspects, Women--Afghanistan

Collections: Entire Library

...carpet-weaving, that women can do while confined...passive, mysterious Muslim woman enticingly hidden behind...Last November, when the Taliban summoned the women of Kabul to witness that...public execution of a woman, a RAWA member brought...demonstrate against the Taliban in Pakistan, where their...
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Taliban Demands Rigid Conformity

Magazine article by Timothy W. Maier; Insight on the News, Vol. 17, October 22, 2001

Subjects:

Afghanistan--Politics and government, Atrocities--Afghanistan, Islamic fundamentalism--Afghanistan, Social structure--Afghanistan, Taliban--Powers and duties, Women--Crimes against

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...defeated in a decadelong war. The Taliban, a militia of fanatically...retaliatory attack against the Taliban, which has harbored terrorist...large cloth which covers a woman from head to toe, she saw abandoned women, denied employment outside...wearing white shoes was beaten by Taliban officials because the color...

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Newspaper Articles on: taliban women

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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...Koreans kidnapped by the Taliban in mid-July were freed...executed by gunfire. Fourteen women and five men are still...a ransom payment. The Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef...
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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

...North once persecuted by the Taliban. When she was at school in...particularly for searching women at checkpoints. On her first...out, one policewoman found a woman concealing a radio switch for...brutal, on a par with the Taliban. Rogue policemen have turned...point towards a new future for women in education in Afghanistan...
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SOFTEST TARGETS; Three Women Charity Workers Gunned Down by Taliban

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), August 14, 2008

Subjects:

Charities, Working women

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

...SOFTEST TARGETS; Three Women Charity Workers Gunned Down by Taliban. Byline: BY MAURICE FITZMAURICE A WOMAN who worked in a Northern...been slaughtered in a Taliban ambush along with two...battlefields. Last night the Taliban claimed responsibility and branded the women "spies". George Rupp...
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96 Killed by Bomb Blast in Pakistan; Outrage as Taliban Targets Women and Children

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 29, 2009

Subjects:

Civilian casualties--Casualties

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

...Blast in Pakistan; Outrage as Taliban Targets Women and Children. Byline: David...the heartless fanatics of the Taliban to strike. Of at least 96 people...shops. Investigators believe the Taliban deliberately targeted women and...
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Two Taliban Said They'd Kill Me for Being a Police Woman . .We Moved That Day but Our Landlord Was Beheaded; POLICING BATTLE FOR AFGHANISTAN

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), November 24, 2011

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

...way we would see it. "These women are incredibly brave and I...has to be adapted. A runaway woman can be a fugitive who has caused...who needs looking after. A woman running away from home might...Afghan police - just 1,200 are women. At the Police Staff College...He was blown up by the Taliban when he was driving his vehicle...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: taliban women

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Afghanistan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...conservatives, former mujahidin and Taliban, women, and Pashtuns (which are overlapping...Pakistan of failing to control Taliban and Al Qaeda camps in areas bordering...government of directly supporting the Taliban. In Jan., 2006, a U.S. airstrike...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate; she was the first woman to gain a major partys vice presidential nomination. Reagan...those who harbored them, Bush demanded that Afghanistans Taliban government turn over Osama bin Laden , a Saudi-born Islamic...
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Pakistan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...them elected by popular vote, with 60 seats reserved for women and 10 for non-Muslims; all serve five-year terms...Pakistan and sought its help in securing bin Laden from the Taliban government of Afghanistan, but Pakistan proved unable...
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Uzbekistan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...against Osama bin Laden and Afghanistans Taliban; the U.S. campaign there also weakened Uzbek Islamic guerrillas supported by the Taliban and Al Qaeda. In 2002, after a referendum...however, estimated that more than 700 men, women, and children had died when security...
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Great Britain

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...third Reform Bill extended the vote to agricultural laborers. (Women could not vote until 1918.) In the 1880s trade unions, which...Americans in launching attacks against Afghanistan after the Taliban government refused to hand over Osama bin Laden . The Blair...

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