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Summary: An investigative journalist uncovers a hidden Afghan custom that will change your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl. Expanding on her widely read New York Times article "Afghan boys are prized, so girls live the part," in which she uncovered the phenomenon of bacha posh (literally "dressed up like a boy" in Dari), the practice of disguising and raising young girls as boys,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 305.3 NORGhafari, Zarifa
Summary: "Zarifa Ghafari was three years old when the Taliban banned girls from schools, and she began her education in secret. She was six when American airstrikes began. She was twenty-four when she became mayor--one of the first female mayors in the country--and first of Wardak, one of the most conservative provinces in Afghanistan. An extremist mob barred her from her office; her male staff walked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GHAFARI, ZARIFA GHADurrani, Pashtana
Summary: "Inspired by generations of her family's unwavering belief in the power of education, Pashtana Durrani recognized her calling early in life: to educate Afghanistan's girls and young women, raised in a society where learning is forbidden. In a country devastated by war and violence, heeding that call seemed both impossible and dangerous. Pashtana founded the nonprofit LEARN and developed a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corporation 2024
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Summary: An award-winning foreign correspondent who contributed to a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times series reveals the secret Afghan custom of disguising girls as boys to improve their prospects, discussing its political and social significance as well as the experiences of its practitioners
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.3 NORNordland, Rod
Summary: "An astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about women's rights in the Muslim world. Zakia and Ali were from different tribes, but they grew up on neighboring farms in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. By the time they were young teenagers, Zakia, strikingly beautiful and fiercely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 958.104 NORSummary: This drama chronicles the true story of a young girl in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan who must disguise herself as a boy to save her family from starvation. The first feature film made in Afghanistan in the post-Taliban era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OSAKargar, Zarghuna.
Summary: Collects thirteen real-life stories of Afghani women who speak out about their hidden lives, from the child bride given as payment to end a family feud to a widow shunned by society, revealing their suffering and strength.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 KARCortright, David
Summary: Argues that a responsible military withdrawal from Afghanistan would will be beneficial for all parties involved, offers a critical analysis of the U.S./NATO military policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and provides alternative strategies for preventing terrorist insurgency and securing human rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paradigm Publishers 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 CORJubber, Nicholas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.504 JUBGarcia, J. Malcolm
Summary: "Collection of literary reportage from Afghanistan: stories that go unreported, the lives of people not usually considered newsworthy or important, people who struggle just to survive"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 GARJohnson, Chris
Contents: The mirage of peace -- Identity and society -- Ideology and difference -- One size fits all--Afghanistan in the new world order -- The makings of a narco state? -- State -- Bonn and beyond, part I: the political transition -- Bonn and beyond, part II: the governance transition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zed Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 JOHQādirī, Ḥumayrā
Summary: "In the days before Homeira Qaderi gave birth to her son, Siawash, the road to the hospital in Kabul would often be barricaded because of the frequent suicide explosions. With the city and the military on edge, it was not uncommon for an armed soldier to point his gun at the pregnant woman's bulging stomach, terrified that she was hiding a bomb. Frightened and in pain, she was once forced to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 QADERI, HOMEIRA QADCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B QADERI QADYasgur, Batya Swift.
Summary: An Afghan woman who escaped from the Communists, and her younger sister, who fled the Taliban only to be jailed by the INS, describe the changing circumstances for women in their homeland and their efforts to survive in exile.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 YASUriarte, Maximilian
Summary: "Lapis Lazuli is a rich blue semiprecious gemstone found deep in the Sar-i-sang mountains of Afghanistan's Badakhshan province. For thousands of years it has sustained the nearby mining villages, whose inhabitants lived peacefully in the mountainous landscape--until the Taliban, known in the region as the Horsemen, came to seek the riches stored deep beneath the earth. Taliban rule has turned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 URIWahab, Saima.
Summary: Relates the author's decision, years after her father was taken away by the KGB, to relocate to her uncle's home in America, where she pursued an education and worked as an interpreter before becoming a cultural adviser for the U.S. Army.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WAHAB, SAIMA WAHOmar, Qais Akbar.
Summary: A carpet designer in Kabul describes his childhood before the Mujahedin took over, his family's struggle for survival after fleeing their home, and how his secret carpet factory provided both employment and education for neighborhood girls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 OMAR, OAIS AKBAR OMASteele-Perkins, Chris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Westzone Pub. Ltd. 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.9958 STEAlexander, Chris
Contents: Treading lightly. Price of entry -- Friend for a season -- Palace rules -- Secret heart -- Home front ; Hanging fire. Trampled vintage -- New colonialists -- Western approaches -- Inner light ; Bolder strokes. Talent's table -- Dance of war -- Lost arts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1047 ALEWinter, Jeanette
Summary: Based on a true story. After her parents are taken away by the Taliban, young Nasreen stops speaking. But as she spends time in a secret school, she slowly breaks out of her shell
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WINShah, Saira.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 SHABarfield, Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson)
Summary: This work traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today. The author introduces readers to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, explaining what unites them as Afghans despite the regional, cultural, and political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 BARSmith, Graeme
Summary: A personal look at the war in Afghanistan from the perspective of a Canadian war correspondent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 SMIRodriguez, Deborah.
Summary: Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a humanitarian aid group. Surrounded by people whose skills--as doctors, nurses, and therapists--seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother from Michigan, despaired of being of any real use. Yet she found she had a gift for befriending Afghans, and once her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4869 RODRodriguez, Deborah.
Summary: "Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a humanitarian aid group. Surrounded by people whose skills--as doctors, nurses, and therapists--seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother from Michigan, despaired of being of any real use. Yet she found she had a gift for befriending Afghans, and once her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007