Streets of Afghanistan

by Shannon Galpin

The work of several Afghan and Western photographers and photojournalists chronicles various aspects of Afghan culture and includes a description for each photo. Original.

Streets of Afghanistan

Author: Shannon Galpin

Publisher:

ISBN: 9781578264674

Page: 99

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The work of several Afghan and Western photographers and photojournalists chronicles various aspects of Afghan culture and includes a description for each photo. Original.

Children of Afghanistan

by Jennifer Heath

Streets. of. Kabul. WaHid. omar. Since 2001 and the fall of the Taliban, Kabul,
Afghanistan, has transformed from a ghost town, perforated by millions of bullets,
into a dusty city con- sumed by construction sites, polluting generators and cars, ...

Children of Afghanistan

Author: Jennifer Heath

Publisher: University of Texas Press

ISBN: 0292759339

Page: 388

View: 562

The first comprehensive look at youth living in a country attempting to rebuild itself after three decades of civil conflict, Children of Afghanistan relies on the research and fieldwork of twenty-one experts to cover an incredible range of topics. Focusing on the full scope of childhood, from birth through young adulthood, this edited volume examines a myriad of issues: early childhood socialization in war and peace; education, literacy, vocational training, and apprenticeship; refugee life; mental and physical health, including disabilities and nutrition; children's songs, folktales, and art; sports and play; orphans; life on the streets; child labor and children as family breadwinners; child soldiers and militarization; sexual exploitation; growing up in prison; marriage; family violence; and other issues vital to understanding, empowerment, and transformation. Children of Afghanistan is the first volume that not only attempts to analyze the range of challenges facing Afghan children across class, gender, and region but also offers solutions to the problems they face. With nearly half of the population under the age of fifteen, the future of the country no doubt lies with its children. Those who seek peace for the region must find solutions to the host of crises that have led the United Nations to call Afghanistan "the worst place on earth to be born." The authors of Children of Afghanistan provide child-centered solutions to rebuilding the country's cultural, social, and economic institutions.

Derailing Democracy in Afghanistan

by Noah Coburn

A WOMAN'S PLACE In the summer months of 2005, the streets of Afghanistan's
cities were adorned with the enlarged and ubiquitous colored portraits of women
candidates for parliament and the provincial council. In any other country, this ...

Derailing Democracy in Afghanistan

Author: Noah Coburn

Publisher: Columbia University Press

ISBN: 0231535740

Page: 288

View: 601

Since the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, researchers, policymakers, and the media have failed to consider the long-term implications of the country's post-conflict elections. Based on fieldwork in provinces across the country and interviews with more than seven hundred candidates, officials, community leaders, and voters, this book builds an in-depth portrait of Afghanistan's recent elections as experienced by individuals and communities, while revealing how the elections have in fact actively contributed to instability, undermining the prospects of democracy in Afghanistan. Merging political science with anthropology, Noah Coburn and Anna Larson document how political leaders, commanders, and the new ruling elite have used elections to further their own interests and deprive local communities of access to political opportunities. They retrace presidential, parliamentary, and provincial council elections over the past decade and expose the role of international actors in promoting the polls as one-off events, detached from the broader political landscape. This approach to elections has allowed existing local powerholders to solidify their grip on resources and opportunities, derailing democratization processes and entrenching a deeper disengagement from central government. Western powers, Coburn and Larson argue, need to reevaluate their most basic assumptions about elections, democracy, and international intervention if they hope to prevent similar outcomes in the future.

Beauty the Beast Vendetta

by Nancy Holder

In Afghanistan, his superiors had received orders to wipe out his unit of
experimental super soldiers, and he had used ... buildings of her neighborhood,
as impenetrable to the naked human eye as the streets of Afghanistan on those
terrible, ...

Beauty the Beast Vendetta

Author: Nancy Holder

Publisher: Titan Books

ISBN: 1783292245

Page: 304

View: 814

During a mysterious blackout, Angelo Demarco, the son of New York City's most powerful family, is kidnapped. NYPD detectives Catherine Chandler and Tess Vargas are on the case when they learn of a second missing person: Cat's father has disappeared from his prison cell. Vincent is desperate to help Cat, but as tensions rise, the couple becomes caught in a trap where the only way out is to confront their pasts and prove their epic love.

Afghanistan

by Ed Girardet

Now voicing antiSoviet declarations or political manifestos, they were distributed
in the streets, left in the mosques or pushed ... Thousands of demonstrators
marched through the streets chanting slogans such as 'Russians, Afghanistan is
not ...

Afghanistan

Author: Ed Girardet

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 0415684803

Page: 259

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First published in 1985, this is a book written at the height of the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Based on five clandestine trips into Afghanistan with the resistance, the book examines why the Soviets invaded in 1979 and what they were seeking to defend. The author analyses their deliberate policy of migratory genocide through a combination of aerial bombardments, political repression and economic blockades. The book is written by the journalist Ed Girardet, one of the world's leading authorities on the conflict, whose particular strength is his dispassionate reporting style and his firsthand proximity to the conflict. He interviewed many of the leaders of the Afghan resistance, both inside Afghanistan and in the refugee camps and he explains in depth the nature of the Afghan Islamic anti-communist struggle for independence. This is a book in the finest tradition of war reporting on the front line and the reissue is essential reading for all those interested in the history of the conflict in Afghanistan.

Will I Live Tomorrow

by Sonia Cole

One WomanÕs Mission to Create an Anti-Taliban Film in War-Torn Afghanistan
Sonia Cole. W. e left the airport's nerve-wracking experience, and the nightmare
of driving through the streets began. ere were no tra c lights anywhere, and there
 ...

Will I Live Tomorrow

Author: Sonia Cole

Publisher: BenBella Books, Inc.

ISBN: 193952914X

Page: 224

View: 918

When Sonia Nassery Cole set out to film The Black Tulip in her homeland of Afghanistan, she knew the odds were against her; she was told time and time again that filming inside a war zone would be impossible. What she didn’t anticipate was how intent the Taliban and its sympathizers were on halting the film’s production—the crew encountered extortion, government corruption, kidnapping attempts, and death threats, even with around-the-clock security. Her cinematographer fled after two days, and many others followed. After 9/11, Cole wrote The Black Tulip, based on a true story of a real Afghan family. The plot was simple: After 2001, when the Taliban was routed, an Afghan family opened The Poet’s Corner—a restaurant with an open microphone for all to read poetry, perform music, and tell their stories. But the Taliban didn’t approve, and the family’s new-found hope proved fleeting as it struggled to maintain the restaurant and its vibrant way of life. Selected as Afghanistan's official submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 2010 Academy Awards, The Black Tulip is a modern portrait of Afghanistan that captures the plight and resilience of its people. Without financial support from a studio or anyone else, Cole self-financed the film by mortgaging her home and selling her belongings. Then, with everything on the line, she left for Kabul to make the impossible possible and set out to gather the right people who would risk their lives and willingly be part of the production. In Will I Live Tomorrow?, Cole gives an intimate look into what went on behind the scenes of making a controversial film in the heart of a war-ravaged country—the looming terror the Taliban creates among Afghans everywhere and the challenges and fear the cast and crew faced every day. Will I Live Tomorrow? is a memoir about one woman’s struggle to make a difference in a violent world.

Afghanistan

by Gillia M. Olson

What are Afghanistan ' s forms of transportation ? Most people in ... People use
carts pulled by horses to move goods and people on city streets . In rural areas ...
Afghanistan has few paved roads and no usable railroads . Many Afghan roads ...

Afghanistan

Author: Gillia M. Olson

Publisher: Capstone

ISBN: 9780736826853

Page: 32

View: 475

A simple question-and-answer format offers a brief introduction to Afghanistan, discussing land features, government, housing, transportation, industries, sports, holidays, food, and family life.

The Legitimacy of the Holy Bible as a Legal Instrument

by Cherub Angela Nicholls

8 The controversial responses resulted in deaths in the streets of Afghanistan,
street protests in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kenya, Nigeria (some
churches were burnt in rural Nigeria). Protests continued in Palestinian controlled
 ...

The Legitimacy of the Holy Bible as a Legal Instrument

Author: Cherub Angela Nicholls

Publisher: Xulon Press

ISBN: 1600346502

Page: 120

View: 578

Nicholls reveals amazing answers to questions concerning todays diverse global problems including religion, democracy, and the nuances governing the UNs policies on Israel.

Two Hundred and Twenty One Baker Streets

by Guy Adams

“Despite having gone to Oxford for medical school, which is both impressive and
explains why he speaks properly, medicine is not Dr. Watson's life's calling,
although he enjoys it. He's a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom in
Afghanistan ...

Two Hundred and Twenty One Baker Streets

Author: Guy Adams

Publisher: Abaddon Books

ISBN: 1849977771

Page: 336

View: 962

THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS DETECTIVE, AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN HIM BEFORE! This is Sherlock Holmes as you’ve never seen him before: as an architect in a sleepy Australian town, as a gentleman in seventeenth-century Worcestershire, as a precocious school girl in a modern British comprehensive. He’s dodging his rent in the squalid rooms of the notorious Chelsea Hotel in ’68, and preventing a bloody war between the terrible Lords Wizard of a world of fantasy. Editor David Thomas Moore brings together the finest of celebrated and new talent in SF and Fantasy to create a spectrum of Holmes stories that will confound everything you ever thought you knew about the world’s greatest detective. Featuring fourteen original stories by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Emma Newman, Gini Koch, Guy Adams, Ian Edginton, James Lovegrove, Glen Mehn, Jamie Wyman, JE Cohen, Jenni Hill, Joan de la Haye, Kaaron Warren, Kasey Lansdale and Kelly Hale.

Afghanistan the Perfect Failure

by John L. Cook

During mid-morning and late afternoon, the streets of Kabul are usually choked
with heavy traffic. Cars, trucks, motorcycles ... There's no Afghan version of
Allstate or Mutual of Omaha on Chicken Street or any other street in Kabul. The
whole ...

Afghanistan the Perfect Failure

Author: John L. Cook

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

ISBN: 1479720712

Page: 223

View: 99

LONG BOOK DESCRIPTION: Unparalleled access to all levels of the Afghan government and coalition forces is the result of John Cooks tenure in Afghanistan. Over the past four and a half years, he has developed an intimate and alarming insight into what has become a hand-wringing quagmire of politically correct, socially and culturally sensitive policies and programs that continue to be implemented, and that can only result in catastrophic failure for the United States, the coalition and the average Afghan. Mr. Cook offers unprecedented insight as he digs deep to rip away at the misguided and destructive policies, including the infamous Rules of Engagement that doom our soldiers for the sake of political correctness and cultural sensitivity. This raw and disturbing account covers the truths regarding the appalling and cruel treatment of women, the squandering of foreign aid by, and corruption of, the Karzai-centric government that includes the betrayal of its own people. He presents eye-opening insight into the tribal structure that has traditionally guided the Afghan mindset and, despite efforts to westernize, will not go away. He details the inexplicable and infuriating policies regarding failures associated with poppy eradication, and it is the poppies that are the fuel for terrorist activities. He further provides explanations for the Talibans continuing control and the problems associated with our well-intentioned but misguided counterinsurgency strategies against the Taliban and al Qaeda - strategies that fail our mission and our soldiers. In this reasoned, forceful and intellectually honest treatise, he also courageously dissects the disturbing role of Islam and forces the reader to come face to face with the reality that Islam, not the Taliban, is the real enemy in Afghanistan. After reading Afghanistan: The Perfect Failure, we can only conclude we must no longer turn a blind eye to what is happening in Afghanistan. Mr. Cooks dissection is powerful and provocative. The American public deserves more than the thin veil of reporting that has been done on the subjects in this expose. Due to his longevity in this war torn country and high- level access, few, if any, have had the opportunity to gain the inside and knowledge afforded John Cook; none have had the courage to publicly reveal the shameful truth.

History of the War in Afghanistan

by Sir John William Kaye

Mosques and caravanserais, public baths and public reservoirs, varied the
wretched uniformity of the narrow dirty streets, which, roofed across, were often
little better than dark tunnels or conduits, where every conceivable description of
filth ...

History of the War in Afghanistan

Author: Sir John William Kaye

Publisher:

ISBN:

Page:

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STREET LITERATURE ON USAMA BIN LADEN PART II : The Soviet - Afghan
Years LIEUTENANT COMMANDER ... major left Egypt to report on Usama Bin
Laden's jihad challenges to American military against the Soviets in Afghanistan .

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Winter Soldier Iraq and Afghanistan

by Iraq Veterans Against the War

Some people who didn't even have licenses back in the States or know how to
drive stick were now driving these vans through the crowded downtown streets of
Kabul, Afghanistan at extremely high speeds, as fast as the ve- hicles would go.

Winter Soldier Iraq and Afghanistan

Author: Iraq Veterans Against the War

Publisher: Haymarket Books

ISBN: 1608460606

Page: 240

View: 967

“The only way this war is going to end is if the American people truly understand what we have done in their name.”—Kelly Dougherty, executive director of Iraq Veterans Against the War In spring 2008, inspired by the Vietnam-era Winter Soldier hearings, Iraq Veterans Against the War gathered veterans to expose war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq. Here are the powerful words, images, and documents of this historic gathering, which show the reality of life in Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq Veterans Against the War argues that well-publicized incidents of American brutality like the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the massacre of an entire family of Iraqis in the town of Haditha are not the isolated incidents perpetrated by “a few bad apples,” as many politicians and military leaders have claimed. They are part of a pattern, the group says, of “an increasingly bloody occupation.” "Here is the war as it should be reported, seeing the pain, refusing to sanitize an unprovoked attack that has killed over one million people. All over America are victims who have returned from this conflict with hideous wounds -- wounds that turn the lives of the entire family upside down. And the American people are not seeing this. Until now. "Winter Soldier, an enormously important project of Iraq Veterans Against the War, cuts this debacle to the bone, exposing details hard to come by and even harder to believe. This is must reading for patriots who have already begun the effort to insure that this never happens again." --Phil Donahue "Winter Soldier makes us feel the pain and despair endured by those who serve in a military stretched to the breaking point by stop-loss policies, multiple combat tours, and a war where the goals and the enemies keep shifting ... [and] also make[s] us admire the unbreakable idealism and hope of those men and women who still believe that by speaking out they can make things better both for themselves and for those who come after them."--San Francisco Chronicle Formed in the aftermath of the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) was founded in 2004 to give those who have served in the military since September 11, 2001, a way to come together and speak out against an unjust, illegal, and unwinnable war. Today, IVAW has over seven hundred members in forty-nine states, Washington, DC, Canada, and on military bases overseas. Aaron Glantz is an independent journalist who has covered the Iraq War from the front lines. He is the author of How America Lost Iraq (Tarcher) and a forthcoming book on the Iraq War from the University of California Press. Anthony Swofford is the author of Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles.

Afghanistan Remembers

by Parin Dossa

... this theme to highlight an additional point: the intricate ways in which
Afghanistan (there) and Canada (here) are interconnected. By way of illustration,
I focus on three sites from my ethnographic research in Valley View (Burnaby):
the street, ...

Afghanistan Remembers

Author: Parin Dossa

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

ISBN: 1442615370

Page: 178

View: 952

In Afghanistan Remembers, Parin Dossa examines how violence is remembered by Afghan women through memories and food practices in their homeland and its diaspora.

The War in Afghanistan

by KidCaps

The Soviets got involved to help their fellow party members and soon there were
Soviet soldiers marching in the streets and mountaintops of Afghanistan as part
of the war also. The United States thought that the Soviets were trying to spread ...

The War in Afghanistan

Author: KidCaps

Publisher: BookCaps Study Guides

ISBN: 162107532X

Page:

View: 667

In this book, we will learn a lot about the War in Afghanistan. The first section will tell us more about what led up to it. We will look a little at the history of Afghanistan to find out how such bad guys like the Taliban could ever become the ruling party in the country. We will also see a little of what life was like when the Taliban was in charge. Find out more in this kids book. KidCaps is an imprint of BookCaps Study Guides; with dozens of books published every month, there's sure to be something just for you! Visit our website to find out more.