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Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Keywords: afghanistan, reconstructing
Number of Pages: 83
Published: 2005-04-28
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1589063244
ISBN-13: 9781589063242

Following the United States led military intervention in Afghanistan in 2001, the Taliban regime collapsed and a new interim government was established, with a new constitution signed and elections subsequently held in 2004. This publication examines the progress made to rebuild Afghanistan’s economy and key institutions in the post-conflict environment, as well as discussing the challenges that remain. Chapters consider a range of issues including: a review of the political landscape, aid assistance programmes and the role of the IMF; recent macroeconomic developments, including policie

Author: Ehsan M Entezar
Publisher: Xlibris Corporatio
Keywords: afghanistan
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2008-01-04
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1425792820
ISBN-13: 9781425792824

Afghanistan 101 is an introduction to Afghan culture. More specifically, this dimensional analysis discusses Power Distance (PD), Uncertainty Avoidance (UA), Individualism (IND), and Masculinity (MAS) in the Afghan national culture. These dimensions are based on the work of the well-known Dutch anthropologist Geert Hofestede. The manifestations of these cultural dimensions explain the attitudes and actions of Afghans. Each chapter on dimensions also includes a section where the implications of a particular dimension are pointed out to the Westerner working in Afghanistan. Power Distance, the f

Author: Ted Rall
Publisher: ComicsLit
Keywords: afghanistan
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2002-04
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1561633259
ISBN-13: 9781561633258

The World�s first "Instant Graphic Novel"! When U.S. bombs started raining on the Taliban, Rall didn’t just watch it on TV--he jumped on a plane straight to the war zone to get the real story for himself. But the only cartoonist to go to Afghanistan got more than he bargained for, way more than his previous gut-wrenching trip deep up the legendary Silk Road. Within days of arriving, armed men were hunting down journalists to murder and rob them. Waving funnies didn�t help. From the gruesome spectacle of a Taliban prisoner blowing himself up with grenades to the hilarious image of mujahid

Author: Jere Van Dyk
Publisher: IUniverse
Keywords: odyssey, american, afghanistan
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2002-04-11
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 059521553X
ISBN-13: 9780595215539

In Afghanistan is the story of a young man, searching for adventure and self-discovery in war-torn Afghanistan during the time of the Soviet invasion. It is also a portrait of an exotic land and people desperately struggling for survival during that war, as they are today. In 1981, with a letter and some financial backing from The New York Times, Van Dyk, bearded and dressed as an Afghan, sneaked into Afghanistan , then off-limits to foreigners, and lived in the ruggedly-beautiful mountains and desert of this country with the Mujahideen, the men then fighting the Soviet Union. �“My spine

Author: James A. Michener
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperback
Keywords: afghanistan, novel, caravans
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-09-09
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0812969820
ISBN-13: 9780812969825

In this romantic adventure of wild Afghanistan, master storyteller James Michener mixes the allure of the past with the dangers of today. After an impetuous American girl, Ellen Jasper, marries a young Afghan engineer, her parents hear no word from her. Although she wants freedom to do as she wishes, not even she is sure what that means. In the meantime, she is as good as lost in that wild land, perhaps forever...."An extraordinary novel....Brilliant."THE NEW YORK TIMESFrom the Paperback edition.

Author: Isabelle Delloye
Publisher: Ruminator Book
Keywords: afghanistan, women
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2003-06-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1886913595
ISBN-13: 9781886913592

When the Taliban was ousted as the ruling party of Afghanistan, the iconic images of newfound freedom were those of men shaving their beards and women removing their veils. In Women of Afghanistan, French journalist Isabelle Delloye goes beyond the images -- and behind the veils -- and collects the crucial and fascinating stories of Afghani women from the last quarter-century.Delloye began doing interviews while working as a teacher in Kabul shortly before the Soviet invasion of 1980. Upon returning to France, she felt compelled to offer a forum in which the voices of her interviewees could be

Author: Abdulkader H. Sinno
Publisher: Cornell University Pre
Keywords: afghanistan, war, organizations
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2010-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0801475783
ISBN-13: 9780801475788

"After we had exchanged the requisite formalities over tea in his camp on the southern edge of Kabul’s outer defense perimeter, the Afghan field commander told me that two of his bravest mujahideen were martyred because he did not have a pickup truck to take them to a Peshawar hospital. They had succumbed to their battle wounds. He asked me to tell his party’s bureaucrats across the border that he needed such a vehicle desperately. I double-checked with my interpreter that he was indeed making this request. I wasn’t puzzled because the request appeared unreasonable but becaus