Belk Library materials to supportthe 2009-2010 Common Reading
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
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A variety of resources available in Belk Library and beyond are listed here.
You can also find these and other books and audiovisual materials by searching the Library’s online catalog using these suggested subject headings: Afghanistan, women, Taliban, social conditions, economic conditions, sex discrimination against women, Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
Other materials by the author
• The kite runner. New York: Riverhead Books, 2003.
Call no. 813 H794ki / Also available as an audiobook.
• Afghanistan: hidden treasures from the National Museum, Kabul. United States: National Geographic, 2008. Narrated by Khaled Hosseini.
Call no. 709.581 Af34st (DVD)
• Armstrong, Sally. Veiled threat: the hidden power of the women of Afghanistan. New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002.
Call no. 305.4209581 Ar58ve
• Belt, Don (ed.). The world of Islam. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, 2001.
Call no. 909.097671 W893be
• Benard, Cheryl. Veiled courage: inside the Afghan women's resistance. New York : Broadway Books, 2002.
Call no. 305.4209581 B43ve
• Brodsky, Anne E. With all our strength: the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. New York : Routledge, 2003.
Call no. 305.4209581 B785wi
• Chavis, Melody Ermachild. Meena, heroine of Afghanistan: the martyr who founded RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 2003.
Call no. 305.4209581 M471ch
• Crews, Robert D., and Amin Tarzi. The Taliban and the crisis of Afghanistan. Emeryville, Calif. : Seal Press, 2006.
Call no. 355.0082 So42wo (on course reserve for GST 110)
• Emadi, Hafizullah. Culture and customs of Afghanistan. Westport, Conn. Greenwood Press, 2005.
Call no. 306.09581 Em11cu (on course reserve for GST 110)
• Emadi, Hafizullah. Repression, resistance, and women in Afghanistan. Westport, Conn. Praeger, 2002.
Call no. 305.409581 Em11re
• Ferguson, Michaele L., and Lori Jo Marso (eds.). W stands for women: how the George W. Bush presidency shaped a new politics of gender. Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Call no. 305.420973 W1fe
• Goodwin, Jan. Price of honor: Muslim women lift the veil of silence on the Islamic world. Boston : Little, Brown, 1994.
Call no. 305.486971 G634pr
• Griffin, John. Reaping the whirlwind: Afghanistan’s Taliban movement. Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2001.
Call no. 305.486971 G634pr
• Husain, Sarah (ed.). Voices of resistance: Muslim women on war, faith & sexuality. Emeryville, Calif. : Seal Press, date.
Call no. xxx
• Kiviat, Katherine. Women of courage: intimate stories from Afghanistan. Layton, Utah : Gibbs Smith, 2007.
Call no. J 958.1 K658wo
• Mehta , Sunita. War's offensive on women: the humanitarian challenge in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. New York : Marlowe & Co., 2000.
Call no. 362.87 M558wa
• Miller, John, and Aaron Kenedi (eds.). Inside Islam: the faith, the people, and the conflicts of the world's fastest-growing religion. New York : Marlowe & Co., 2002.
Call no. 297 In7mi
• Moghadam, Valentine M. (ed.). From patriarchy to empowerment: women's participation, movements, and rights in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2003.
Call no. 305.420956 M724mo2
• Physicians for Human Rights. The Taliban's war on women: a health and human rights crisis in Afghanistan. Boston : Physicians for Human Rights, 1998.
Call no. 305.4209581 T143ph
• Rashid, Ahmed. Taliban: militant Islam, oil and fundamentalism in Central Asia. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2000.
Call no. 958.1046 R183ta
• Rodriguez, Deborah. Kabul Beauty School: an American woman goes behind the veil. New York : Random House, 2007.
Call no. 305.409581 R618ka
• Roraback, Amanda. Afghanistan in a nutshell. Santa Monica, Calif. : Enisen Pub., 2004.
Call no. 958.1 R69af
• Rostami-Povey, Elaheh. Afghan women: identify and invasion. New York : Palgrave MacMillan, 2007.
Call no. 305.409581 R738af (on course reserve for GST 110)
• Shah, Saira. The storyteller's daughter. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Call no. 958.1046 Sh13st
• Skaine, Rosemarie. The women of Afghanistan under the Taliban. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2002.
Call no. 305.409581 Sk13wo (on course reserve for GST 110)
• Skaine, Rosemarie. Women of Afghanistan in the post-Taliban era: how lives have changed and where they stand today. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2008.
Call no. 305.409581 Sk13wo2
• Tétreault , Mary Ann (ed.). Women and revolution in Africa, Asia, and the New World. Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 1994.
Call no. 305.42 W842te
• Woodward, John (ed.). Afghanistan: opposing viewpoints. Detroit : Greenhaven Press, 2006.
Call no. REF. 958.1047 Af34wo
• Yasgur,Batya Swift. Behind the burqa: our life in Afghanistan and how we escaped to freedom. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2002.
Call no. 305.409581 Y26be (on course reserve for GST 110)
• Zoya. Zoya's story: an Afghan woman's struggle for freedom . New York, N.Y. : W. Morrow, 2002.
Call no. 958.1046 Z79zo
• (2008). Shooting women. Women Make Movies.
Call no. 778.53 Sh77kr (DVD)
•(2008) Afghanistan: hidden treasures from the National Museum, Kabul. National Geographic.
Call no. 709.581 Af34st (DVD)
• (2007). Motherland Afghanistan. First-Run Features.
Call no. 958.1 M856mo (DVD)
• (2007). 16 days in Afghanistan. KDK Factory.
Call no. 958.1 Si97ha (DVD)
• (2007). Afghan Chronicles. ONF/NFB.
Call no. 079.581 Af34mo (DVD)
• (2006). View from a grain of sand. New Day Films.
Call no. 305.409581 V679na (DVD)
• (2006). The ground truth. Universal Studios Home Entertainment.
Call no. 956.70443 G918fo (DVD)
• (2006). Enemies of happiness. Women Make Movies.
Call no. 305.409581 En27mu (DVD)
• (2004). Women against wars, wars against women. Z Video Productions.
Call no. 303.66 W842sa (DVD)
• (2004). In this world. Showtime Entertainment.
Call no. 791.4352 In1wi (DVD)
• (2003). Afghanistan unveiled. Women Make Movies.
Call no. 305.409581 Af34br (DVD)
• (2003). Return to Kandahar. Bullfrog Films.
Call no. 958.1 r316pa (DVD)
• (2001). The Afghan alphabet. Iranian Movies.
Call no. 958.1 Af34ma (DVD)
• (2001). Kandahar. New Yorker Video.
Call no. 791.4352 K131ma (DVD)
• (2001). Behind the veil: Afghan women under fundamentalism. Films for the Humanities.
Call no. 305.409581 B395Lo (VHS)
• Common Reading - Elon's Common Reading Program website
• Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan - RAWA is the oldest political/social organization of Afghan women
• Afghan's Women's Mission - supports health, educational and other programs for Afghan women.
• Human Rights Watch - World Report 2008 on events in Afghanistan; previous year's World Reports
• IRIN - humanitarian news and analysis from Afghanistan
• Euraisnet.org - information and analysis about political, economic, environmental and social developments
• Qantara.de - Islamic contemporary art and political issues
• Global Policy Forum - UN involvement in Afghanistan
• Women Watch - UN information and resources on gender equality and empowerment of women
• UNIFEM Afghanistan - UN Development Fund for Women