WAW's Recommended Reading List


Books on Afghan Women and Islam

Behind The Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan and How We Escaped to Freedom
By "Sulima" and "Hala" as told to Batya Swift Yasgur, John Wiley & Sons, 2002
*Batya Swift is a member of WAW

Nothing Sacred: Women Respond To Religious Fundamentalism and Terror
Edited by Betsy Reed, Nation Books, 2003
*WAW contributed a chapter to this book

Three Women of Herat
Veronica Doubleday, F.A. Thorpe (Publishing) Limited, September 1999

Women of the Afghan War
Deborah Ellis, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated, July 2000

Searching for Saleem
Farooka Gauhari, Forward by Nancy Dupree, University of Nebraska Press, November 1996

Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World
Jan Goodwin, Dutton/Plume, July 1995

Roses in My Carpets
Rukhsana Khan, Ronald Himler (Illustrator), Holiday House, Inc., July 1998

Our Women Are Free: Gender and Ethnicity in the Hindu Kush
Wynne R. Maggi, University of Michigan Press, November 2001

Women of Afghanistan under the Taliban
Rosemarie Skaine, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, May 2002

Bartered Brides: Politics, Gender and Marriage in an Afghan Tribal Society
Nancy Tapper, Cambridge University Press, May 1991

War's Offensive on Women: The Humanitarian Challenge in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan
Julie A. Mertus, Judy A. Benjamin, Kumarian Press, Incorporated, November 2000


Books about Afghanistan

Dictionary of Afghan Wars, Revolutions, and Insurgencies
Ludwig W. Adamec, Foreword by Jon Woronoff, Scarecrow Press, Inc., November 1996

Afghanistan
Sharifah B. Ali, Marshall Cavendish Inc, September 1995

Afghanistan: Fighting for Freedom
Mir Tamim Ansary, Silver Burdett Press, October 1991

Black Tulip: A Novel of War in Afghanistan
Milton Bearden, Random House, Incorporated, January 2002

The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan
Artyom Borovik, Grove/Atlantic, Inc., April 2001

Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America, and International Terrorism
John K. K. Cooley, Pluto Press, October 2000

Afghanistan
Louis Dupree, Princeton University Press, December 1973

Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier
David B. Edwards, University of California Press, November 1996

The Breadwinner
Deborah Ellis, Groundwood-Douglas & McIntyre, October 2001

Afghanistan: A Short History of It's People and Politics
Martin Ewans, HarperCollins Publishers, Incorporated, February 2002

Lie Down With Lions
Ken Follett, N A L, December 1986

Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban
Larry P. Goodson, University of Washington Press, October 2001

Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost
Russian General Staff, Michael A. Gress, Lester W. Grau (Translators), University Press of Kansas, December 2002

Afghanistan Diary: 1992-2000
Edward Grazda, powerHouse Cultural Entertainment, Incorporated, August 2000

Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan
Michael Griffin, Pluto Press, January 2000

External Influences and the Development of the Afghan State in the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 161
Zalmay A. Gulzad, Peter Lang Publishing, February 1995

Afghanistan of the Afghans
Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah, Ali Ikbal, The Octagon Press, December 1981

Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982
M. Hassan Kakar, University of California Press, March 1997

Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx, and Mujahid
Ralph H. Magnus, Eden Naby, Westview Press, January 2000

Fundamentalism Reborn?: Afghanistan and the Taliban
William Maley (Editor), New York University Press, January 1998

The Taliban Phenomenon: Afghanistan 1994-1997
Kamal Matinuddin, Forward by Sahibzada Yaqub Khan, Oxford University Press, Incorporated, December 1999

Disposable People?: The Plight of Refugees
Judy A. Mayotte, Orbis Books, April 1994

The Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan: Mass Mobilization, Civil War, and the Future of the Region
Neamatollah Nojumi, Palgrave, January 2002

Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
Ahmed Rashid, Yale University Press, March 2001

Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia
Ahmed Rashid, Yale University Press, February 2002

Afghanistan: From Holy War to Civil War
Olivier Roy, Darwin Press, Incorporated, June 1995

The Search for Peace in Afghanistan: From Buffer State to Failed State
Barnett R. Rubin, Yale University Press, November 1995

Fragmentation of Afghanistan
Barnett R. Rubin, Yale University Press, February 2002

Night Letters: Inside Wartime Afghanistan
Rob Schultheis, The Lyons Press, November 2001

Tales of Afghanistan
Amina Shah, Octagon Press, Limited, June 1982

The Victor Weeps: Afghanistan
Fazal Sheikh,Fazal Sheikh (Photographer), Scalo Publishers, September 1998

Afghanistan, A Nation in Love
A. H. Tabibi, Kazi Pubs, June 1978