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Resources on Afghanistan

Books

Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of 
Silence, Sonali Kolhatkar and James Ingalls, Seven Stories Press, 2006.

My War at Home, Masuda Sultan, Washington Square Press. February 28, 
2006.

Love and War in Afghanistan, Gulchin Gulmamadova-Klaits, Alex Klaits, 
Seven Stories Press, 2005.

Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story,  Said Hyder 
Akbar and Susan Burton, Bloomsbury, 2005

The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban, Sarah 
Chayes, Penguin Press HC, 2006.

Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan, Ann Jones, 
Metropolitan Books, 2006.

The Places in Between, Rory Stewart, Harcourt, Inc. 2006,

Descent into Chaos, Ahmed Rashid, Viking, 2008.

Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, Mahmood Mamdani, CODESRIA, 2004.

Women for Afghan Women, edited by Sunita Mehta, St. Martin's Press, 2002.

Shattering the Stereotypes, Muslim Women Speak Out, Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Olive Branch Press, 2005.



Reports

Afghanistan, Inc. A CorpWatch Investigative Report (2006):

Afghan Portraits of Grief, Global Exchange and 9/11 Families for 
Peaceful Tomorrows (2002)



Videos/Films

View from a Grain of Sand, Meena Nanji, Ecesis Films Inc., 2004

Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero, Jon Alpert and Masuda 
Sultan (website and how to get?)

Beyond Belief, Beth Murphy, Alive Mind Media, 2006.

Osama, Siddiq Barmak (2003)



Organizations

       Based in Afghanistan

Afghan Women's Network

Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief

Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)


       Based in US with Work in Afghanistan

Women for Afghan Women

Afghans 4 Tomorrow

Afghans for Afghans

American Friends Service Committee

Women for Women's Afghanistan Work

Defense Committee for Malalai Joya

Beyond the 11th


       Peace Movements in Other Countries Working on Afghanistan

Canadian Peace Alliance Afghanistan Campaign

Stop the War UK Afghanistan Briefing Paper