Further Reading on Afghanistan
Master Bibliography
Angeles Gallego, Maria. Bleaney, Heather. Contributor, Vogelsang, Willem (2006). BRILL, ISBN 9004077413 Afghanistan, A Bibliography. Thematically indexed bibliography devoted to Afghanistan’s current and past, which helps readers find their way through the volumes of secondary literature available. The bibliography indexes journal articles and book publications.
Art
Auboyer, Jeannine (1968). The Art of Afghanistan. Feltham, Middlesex, Great Britain: Hamlyn Publishing Group
Rowland, Benjamin, Jr. (1976). Ancient Art from Afghanistan: Treasures of the Kabul Museum. NY:Arno Press/Ayer Company Publishers
Current Affairs
Goodson, Larry P. (2001). Afghanistan’s Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban. Seattle: University of Washington Press
Rashid, Ahmed (2000). Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. New Haven, CN: Yale University Press Press
Shah, Saira (2003). The Storyteller’s Daughter. HarperCollins Publishers
History and Culture
Ansary, Tamim (2002). West of Kabul, East of New York. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Ewans, Martin (2002). Afghanistan: A Short History of its People and Politics. NY: HarperCollins
Gladstone, Cary (Ed.) (2001). Afghanistan: History, Issues, Bibliography. Huntington, NY: Novinka Books/Nova Science Publishers
Hanifi, Mohammed Jamil (1982). Annotated Bibliography of Afghanistan. (4th ed., rev.). New Haven, CN: HRAF Press
Hosseini, Khaled (2003). The Kite Runner. Riverhead Books.
Olesen, Asta (1994). Afghan Craftsmen. Copenhagen: Rhodos
Pedersen, Gorm (1994). Afghan Nomads in Transition. Copenhagen: Rhodos.
Saberi, Helen (2000). Afghan Food and Cookery: Noshe Djan. NY: Hippocrene Books
Shah, Sirdar Ikbal Ali (1982). Afghanistan of the Afghans. London: Octagon Press
Travel
Chaffetz, David (1981). A Journey Through Afghanistan: A Memorial. Chicago: Regnery Gateway
Cresson, Os (2002). We Felt Their Kindliness: An American Family’s Afghan Odyssey (1949-1951). Haddonfield NJ: Emerald Pademelon Press
Klass, Rosanne (1964). Land of the High Flags: A Travel-Memoir of Afghanistan. NY: Random House
Girardet, Edward & Jonathan Walter (1998). Afghanistan (Essential Field Guides to Humanitarian and Conflict Zones). Geneva: International Center for Humanitarian Reporting
Newby, Eric (1958, 1998). A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush. Footscray, Australia: Lonely Planet
Stark, Freya (1970). The Minaret of Djam: An Excusion in Afghanistan. London: John Murray
Stewart, Rory (2006). The Places In Between. Harvest/Harcourt
Toynbee, Arnold J. (1961). Between Oxus and Jumna. NY: Oxford University Press
Women
Doubleday, Veronica (1988). Three Women of Herat. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press
Grima, Benedicte (1992). Performance of Emotion Among Paxtun Women (Modern Middle East, No. 17) Austin: University of Texas Press
Hosseini, Khaled (2007). A Thousand Splendid Suns. Riverhead Books.
Latifa, with Shekeba Hachemi (2002). My Forbidden Face, Growing Up Under the Taliban: A
Young Woman’s Story. NY: Talk Miramax Books/Hyperion
Zoya, with John Follain & Rita Cristofari (2002). Zoya’s Story: An Afghan Woman’s Struggle for Freedom. NY: William Morrow