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Elmi Yusuf  SM

A Brief Look at the Sovietization of Afghan Education

Afghan Jehad Works Translation Centre, 1987 Peshawar Pakistan. The contents includedetails of Kabul University, The Polytechnic, high schools, Afghan students in the USSR, Afghan culture and a table of executed staff. PP49 Rubbed and worn.

NOT AVAILABLE

92

Elphinstone, Mountstuart

An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul

1992 Indus Publications, Karachi, Pakistan. 2 volume edition in hardback with gilt writing on spine. Map in rear pocket. As new.  Aged 30, he travelled from Delhi to the Afghan monarch Shah Shuja’s winter capital, Peshawar, in 1809; he collected valuable information about the tribes of the Afghans, and his book remains one of the best accounts. His actual travelogue, presented in the introduction, contains descriptions of what was then Afghan territory and is now in Pakistan.

£45

93

Elliot Jason

An unexpected light

A wonderful travel account set in Afghanistan before 1996 under the Mujahideen government, Kabul is under siege by the Taliban the Author is fluent in Persian (SOAS Graduate) and travels throughout Northern Afghanistan. At prayer in the mosque of Herat, an old man advises him on errors he made in his prayer performance and Elliot is touched with the gentle manner in which the old man explains Elliot’s mistakes. Elliot had expected to be harangued as an imposter in the mosque. This book became a best seller in the US and this is the first English Edition.

£50

94

Ellis, Deborah

The women of the Afghan War

234 Pages paperback 2000 praeger publishers.Good condition.

£15

95

Emadi Hafizullah

Politics of Development and Women in Afghanistan

Hardback Paragon press mint condition This is a product of several years research on Women and politics in Afghanistan. The author was inspired to write this book because he wanted to improve understanding about the active role played by women during the struggle against the Soviet occupation and women’s struggle for a new democratic society in the future in Afghanistan. .Contains poems dedicated to the martyr Nahid Saeid Killed during anti  Soviet Student demonstrations in Kabul during 1980.150 pages. Fine  1993 First edition.

£35

96

Emadi Hafizullah

State Revolution and Superpowers in Afghanistan

Pakistan reprint hardback 156 pages 1997 in dustwrapper.

£18

97

Eyre Vincent

Journal of an Afghanistan Prisoner

Lieutenant Eyre’s book of an account of the first Anglo Afghan war and pleasures of Prisoner life enjoying Afghan hospitality. 1976 REPRINT London.

£20

98

Farahi, Abdul Ghaffar

Afghanistan During Democracy and Republic 1963-1978

Translated by Juma Khan Safi published by Area Study Centre University of Peshawar Pakistan. Served as minister for repatriation in the Government of Mohammed Hassan Sharq in 1988 and also served as an Afghan diplomat. 257 pages paperback.

£40

99

Farhadi Ravan A.G.

Abdullah Ansari of Herat An Early Sufi Master

Curzon Press 1996. Pages 158 soft cover paperback. Mint condition.

NOT AVAILABLE

100

Farr Grant M and Merriam John G

Afghan Resistance The Politics of Survival

Pages 235 paperback Pakistani reprint. Chapters on origins of the Anti Soviet Jihad: leadership dilemmas challenges and responses; arms shipments to the Afghan resistance: Afghan Refugee Womenand their struggle for survival; new Afgahn Middle class as refugees and insurgents; rationales for the movement of Afghan refugees; humanitarian response to an inhuman strategy.

£20.
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