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- ArianAfghan.com
- discussing the arts in Afghanistan; publishes Ariana
magazine online
Literature
Museums
- Afghanistan
1969-1974 - preserving a vivid memory of the treasures collected
in the Kabul museum and of an Afghanistan as it used to be years
ago ENG GER
- Kabul
Museum - enjoy the contents of the Kabul Museum prior to its
destruction
- Lost
or Stolen Buddhist Images from Afghanistan - part of the Huntington
Photographic Archive of Buddhist and Related Art at Ohio State
University, this site specifically provides details about Buddhist
art at Bamiyan and in the Kabul Museum.
- Museum
Under Siege - Article about the National Museum in Kabul.
Originally published in Archaeology Magazine, April 1998.
Includes a list of plundered artifacts and a map of the geographical
locations of the origins of the artifacts from the museum.
History
- Afghanistan:
the Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982
by M. Hassan Kakar - eBook from University of California Press.
A professor at Kabul University and scholar of Afghanistan affairs
at the time of the 1978 coup d'état, Kakar vividly describes
the events surrounding the Soviet invasion in 1979 and the encounter
between the military superpower and the poorly armed Afghans.
The events that followed are carefully detailed, with eyewitness
accounts and authoritative documentation that provide an unparalleled
view of this historical moment.
- Afghanistan
Today - Photo essay originally published in Time
magazine in 2002
- Afghan
War Rugs - for those who have an interest, a curiosity or
are collectors of a type of handwoven rug, produced in Afghanistan
during the Russian invasion between 1979 to 1989. These tribal
rugs are generally referred to as Afghan War Rugs.
- Before
Taliban: Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad by David B.
Edwards - eBook from University of California Press. In this book,
David B. Edwards traces the lives of three recent Afghan leaders
in Afghanistan's history--Nur Muhammad Taraki, Samiullah Safi,
and Qazi Amin Waqad--to explain how the promise of progress and
prosperity that animated Afghanistan in the 1960s crumbled and
became the present tragedy of discord, destruction, and despair.
- Heroes
of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier
by David B. Edwards - eBook from University of California Press.
Much of the political turmoil that has occurred in Afghanistan
since the Marxist revolution of 1978 has been attributed to the
dispute between Soviet-aligned Marxists and the religious extremists
inspired by Egyptian and Pakistani brands of "fundamentalist"
Islam. In a significant departure from this view, David B. Edwards
contends that - though Marxism and radical Islam have undoubtedly
played a significant role in the conflict - Afghanistan's troubles
derive less from foreign forces and the ideological divisions
between groups than they do from the moral incoherence of Afghanistan
itself. Seeking the historical and cultural roots of the conflict,
Edwards examines the lives of three significant figures of the
late nineteenth century - a tribal khan, a Muslim saint, and a
prince who became king of the newly created state.
- Parthian Empire
- Site discussing the Parthian empire. Parthia at one time occupied
areas now in Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijhan,
Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Syria, Lebanon,
Jordan, Palestine and Israel.
- Soviet-Afghan
War 1979-1989 -- Russian website maintained by veterans of
the ten year war in Afghanistan. ENG RUS
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