Afghanistan
Books - a list provided
by Ken Schlesinger
Ali, Sharifah Enayat. Afghanistan. Ref. ed. Tarrytown, NY: Cavendish,
1998.
DS 351.5 .A44 1998
The history, government, economy, geography and culture of this country.
Anwar, Raja. The Tragedy of Afghanistan: A First-hand Account.
New York: Verso, 1989.
DS371.2 .A59 1989
A personal memoir of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan from 1979
to 1989, chronicling the collapse of Marxism, as well as the West's
failure to intervene.
Bocharov, Gennadii Nikolaevich. Russian Roulette: Afghanistan Through
Russian Eyes. New York: HarperCollins, 1990.
DS371.2 .B6213 1990
A prominent Soviet journalist's portrait of this country during the
Soviet occupation.
Borovik, Artem. The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of
the Soviet War in Afghanistan. London: Faber, 1991.
DS371.2 .B67 1991
An investigation into Soviet military aggression, as soldiers wage war
against an unseen enemy for unknown reasons.
Foster, Leila Merrell. Afghanistan. New York: Children's Press,
1996.
DS 351.5 .F67 1996
Websites
http://www.govspot.com/common/attack/afghanistan.htm#profiles
U.S. government information on Afghanistan.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/af.html
CIA Factbook, which contains geographical, political, economic,
communications and military information.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/afghanistan.html
University of Texas' Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection contains
extensive international country, city, historical and thematic maps.
War maps and related cartographic information are currently featured,
including Russian topographical maps of Afghanistan.
http://afghanistan.newstrove.com/
Current news about Afghanistan
Other perspectives on the
current state of Islam
Here are some recent books and articles on Afghanistan
Ali, Tariq. The clash of fundamentalisms: crusades, jihads and modernity. London: Verso, 2002.
De Bellaigue, Christopher. “Letter from Herat: the lost city,” The New Yorker, vol. 77, no 44, January 21,2002.
Edwards, David B. Before Taliban: genealogies of the Afghan Jihad. Berkeley; University of California Press, 2002.
Logan, Harriet. Unveiled: voices of the women of Afghanistan. New York: Regan Books, 2002.
Miller, John and Aaron Kenedi. Inside Islam: the faith, the people, and the conflicts of the world’s fastest-growing religion. New York: Marlowe and Co, 2002.
Rashid, Ahmed. Jihad: the rise of militant Islam in Central Asia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
Vogelsang, Willem. The Afghans. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002.
