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Title: Sadika's Way : a novel of Pakistan and America
Author: Haq, Hina
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2004
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 089733518X
Call number: FIC/HAQ
Notes: A Jane Austen style novel of manners about a young Pakistani woman facing a traditional arranged marriage.
Title: Shame : a novel
Author: Rushdie, Salman
Publisher: Picador, 1997
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 0312270933 (pbk.)
Call number: FIC/RUSHDIE
Notes: Rushdie delivers a lively and colorful mixture of history, art, language, politics, and religion in this award winning novel based on life in Pakistan.
Title: The swallows of Kabul
Author: Khadra, Yasmina
Publisher: Anchor Books, 2005
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 1400033764
ISBN 13: 9781400033768
Call number: FIC/KHADRA
Notes: Set in Kabul under the rule of the Taliban, this novel takes readers into the lives of two couples.
Title: A thousand splendid suns
Author: Hosseini, Khaled
Publisher: Riverhead Books, 2007
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 1594489505
ISBN 13: 9781594489501
Call number: FIC/HOSSEINI
Notes: The author of the bestselling "The Kite Runner" offers a story that covers three decades of anti-Soviet jihad, civil war and Taliban tyranny through the lives of two women.
Adult Non Fiction
Title: Afghanistan : a modern history : monarchy, despotism or democracy?
Author: Rasanayagam, Angelo
Publisher: I.B. Tauris, 2003
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 1860648460
ISBN 13: 9781860648465
Call number: 958.103/RASANAYAGAM
Notes: Accurately labeled a "modern history," this well-researched book focuses on events in Afghanistan following the Saur Revolution in 1978.
Title: Alive and well in Pakistan : a human journey in a dangerous time
Author: Casey, Ethan
Publisher: Vision, 2004
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 1904132480 (pbk.)
Call number: 915.49104/CASEY
Notes: An American journalist living in Pakistan draws on numerous interviews to examine Pakistan's culture and history.
Title: Culture and customs of Afghanistan
Author: Emadi, Hafizullah
Publisher: Greenwood Press, 2005
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 0313330891
ISBN 13: 9780313330896
Call number: 958.1/EMADI
Notes: An overview of the resilient people of Afghanistan and their ways of life.
Title: Culture and customs of Pakistan
Author: Malik, Iftikhar
Publisher: Greenwood Press, 2006
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 031333126X
Call number: 954.91/MALIK
Discusses the religions, architecture, housing, cuisine, and traditional dress of Pakistani culture.
Title: Frontline Pakistan : the struggle with militant Islamism
Author: Hussain, Zahid
Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2007
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 0231142242
Call number: 954.9105/HUSSAIN
Notes: Recounts the origins and nature of the jihadi movement in Pakistan and Afghanistan and the long-standing links between militants and Pakistani authorities.
Title: High : stories of survival from Everest and K2
Author: Willis, Clint (ed.)
Publisher: Balliet & Fitzgerald, 1999
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 1560252006 (pbk.)
Call number: 796.522/HIGH
Notes: The first anthology ever to focus exclusively on the two highest, most formidable mountains.
Title: The idea of Pakistan
Author: Cohen, Stephen P.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press, 2004
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 0815715021
Call number: 954.91/COHEN
Notes: A Brookings Institute writer characterizes Pakistan as military-dominated, hostile to most of its neighbors, weak and uneven economically, and wracked with political chaos and sectarian violence.
Title: In the name of honor: a memoir
Author: Mai, Mukhtar
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2006
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 9781416532286
Call number: 305.42095/MAI
A Pakistani woman from an impoverished village was gang raped by a local clan to buy back her brother's honor. Her fight back in the courts changed the feminist movement in Pakistan and she went on to found a school for girls.
Title: Islam: a short history
Author: Armstrong, Karen
Publisher: Modern Library, 2002
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 081296618X (pbk.)
ISBN 13: 9780812966183
Call number: 297.09/ARMSTRONG
Notes: A clear, readable survey of the story of Islam suitable for the educated, nonspecialist adult.
Title: Islam: past, present and future
Author: Kung, Hans
Publisher: Oneworld Publications, 2007
Price: $39.95
ISBN 13: 9781851683772
Call number: 297
Notes: Prominent Christian theologian Kung completes his trilogy on the world's three monotheistic faiths with this lengthy analysis of Islam's 1,400-year history.
Title: K2 : the story of the savage mountain
Author: Curran, Jim
Publisher: Mountaineers, 1995
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 0898866839
Call number: 796.522/CURRAN
Notes: A history of attempts since the 19th century to climb the mountain that mountaineers consider the ultimate prize.
Title: K2, triumph and tragedy
Author: Curran, Jim
Publisher: The Mountaineers, 1987
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 0395485908
Call number: 796.522/CURRAN
Notes: A retelling of a 1986 attempt to climb K2, the second-highest peak in the world - and the most difficult to climb.
Title: Meena, heroine of Afghanistan: The martyr who founded RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 031230689X
ISBN 13: 9780312306892
Call number: B/MEENA
Notes: Meena was assassinated in 1987 at age thirty, and lives on in the hearts of all progressive Muslim women.
Title: My forbidden face: growing up under the Taliban - a young woman's story
Author: Latifa
Publisher: Hyperion Press, 2003
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 1401359256
ISBN 13: 9781401359256
Call number: 305.40958/LATIFA
Notes: At the age of 16, Latifa had planned to attend a university. When the Taliban took over her hometown, the author and her family were forced to stay within the confines of their small apartment to insure their safety.
Title: The silenced cry: one woman's diary of a journey to Afghanistan
Author: Tortajada, Anna
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2004
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 0312303513
ISBN 13: 9780312303518
Call number: 915.8104/TORTAJADA
Notes: In 2000, Spanish journalist Tortajada and two companions set out to see for themselves the effects the Taliban had on Afghan women's lives.
Title: Taliban : militant Islam, oil, and fundamentalism in Central Asia
Author: Rashid, Ahmed
Publisher: Yale University Press, 2000
Price: $25.00
ISBN 13: 9780756772949
Call number: 958.104/RASHID
Notes: The most extreme and radical of all Islamic organizations, the Taliban, inspires controversy and especially fear in both the Muslim world and the West.
Title: Veiled courage : inside the Afghan women's resistance
Author: Benard, Cheryl
Publisher: DIANE, 2003
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 0756767474
ISBN 13: 9780756767471
Call number: 305.42095/BENARD
Notes: In Afghanistan under Taliban rule, women were forbidden to work or go to school, they could not leave their homes without a male chaperone.
Title: What works in girls' education
Author: Herz, Barbara & Sperling, Gene
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations, 2005
Price: $10.00
ISBN: 0876093446
Call number: 371.823/Herz
Notes: Summarizes research on the state of girls' education in the developing world today; the impact of educating girls on families, economies, and nations.
Title: Women in Islam and the Middle East: a reader
Author: Roded, Ruth (ed.)
Publisher: I. B. Tauris, 1999
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 1860643094
ISBN 13: 9781860643095
Call number: 305.48697/WOMEN
Notes: These readings cover various aspects of women's experience in the Middle East, including legal, domestic, political, religious and cultural factors.
Title: Women of Afghanistan
Author: Delloye, Isabelle
Publisher: Ruminator Books, 2003
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 1886913595
ISBN 13: 9781886913592
Call number: 305.42095/DELLOYE
Notes: Presents the stories of Afghan women collected by Delloye over the course of 23 years, accompanied by her observations as a journalist.
Title: The Women of Afghanistan under the Taliban
Author: Skaine, Rosemarie
Publisher: McFarland, 2001
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 0786410906
ISBN 13: 9780786410903
Call number: 305.40958/SKAINE
Notes: All the people of Afghanistan have suffered under the rule of the Taliban, but women live especially difficult lives.
Title: Zoya's story: an Afghan woman's struggle for freedom
Author: Zoya
Publisher: HarperCollins, 2003
Price: $12.95
ISBN 13: 9780060097837 (pbk..)
Call number: 305.40958/ZOYA
Notes: The horrors perpetrated by the Taliban and the Mujahideen and the inhuman restrictions imposed on all girls and women are recounted in this first-person narrative by a young woman from Afghanistan.
Juvenile Fiction
Title: Nadia's hands
Author: English, Karen
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press, 2003
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 1563976676
ISBN 13: 9781563976674
Call number: E/ENGLISH (Picture book)
Notes: Nadia is excited to be asked to be a flower girl in her aunt's wedding, but she is concerned about what her friends will say when they see her hands which have been decorated for the ceremony with traditional Pakistani henna designs.
Title: Under the persimmon tree
Author: Staples, Suzanne Fisher
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 0374380252
Call number: FIC/STAPLES
Notes: Left alone in Afghanistan, young Najmah hopes to find her father and brother, who were conscripted by the Taliban.
Juvenile Non Fiction
Title: Afghanistan. The people
Author: Banting, Erinn
Publisher: Crabtree Pub. Co., 2003
Price: $22.60
ISBN: 0778793362
ISBN 13: 9780778793366
Call number: 958.1/BANTING
Notes: Explores how the history, climate, geography, ethnology, wars, and religion of Afghanistan have shaped the customs and practices of modern daily life in the mountains, deserts, and cities.
Title: Pakistan. The culture
Author: Black, Carolyn
Publisher: Crabtree Pub. Co., 2003
Price: $22.60
ISBN: 0778793486
Call Number. 954.91/BLACK
Notes: Covers the different sects of Islam, Ramadan, arts and crafts, including calligraphy and pottery, the sufi poetry tradition etc.
Title: Pakistan. The land
Author: Black, Carolyn
Publisher: Crabtree Pub. Co., 2003
Price: $22.60
ISBN: 077879346X
Call number: 954.91/BLACK
Notes: Features the Indus River, Thar Desert, mountain ranges, monsoon rains and flooding, city bazaars, the world's largest irrigation system, mountain glaciers, and the Karadoram Highway.
Title: Pakistan. The people
Author: Black, Carolyn
Publisher: Crabtree Pub. Co., 2003
Price: $7.50
ISBN: 0778797155
Call number: 954.91/BLACK
Notes: Follows the history of Pakistan's culture and religion and portrays modern daily life.
Young Adult Fiction
Title: The breadwinner
Author: Ellis, Deborah
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre, 2007
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 0888994192
ISBN 13: 9780888994196
Call number: FIC/ELLIS
Notes: Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest.
Title: Iqbal: a novel
Author: D'Adamo, Francesco
Publisher: Atheneum, 2003
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 0689854455
ISBN 13: 9780689854453
Call number: FIC/D'ADAMO
Notes: A fictionalized account of the Pakistani child who escaped from bondage in a carpet factory and went on the help liberate other children like him before being gunned down at the age of 13.
Young Adult Non Fiction
Title: Afghanistan
Author: Otfinoski, Steven
Publisher: Facts On File, 2003
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 0816050562
ISBN 13: 9780816050567
Call number: 958.1/OTFINOSKI
Notes: Surveys the history, culture, and political and social changes in Afghanistan within the past few years.
Title: Women in the Middle East: tradition and change
Author: Harik, Ramsay M. and Elsa Marston
Publisher: Franklin Watts, 2003
Price: $30.50
ISBN: 0531122220
ISBN 13: 9780531122228
Call number: 305.42/HARIK
Notes: Discusses the lives of women in the Middle East today including the traditions that shape these lives, the present day religious, social and political realities, and changing expectations.
Audio-visual
Title: Afghanistan revealed: the untold story of a land and its people [videorecording]
Publisher: National Geographic Video, 1999
Call number: VC 958.1046/AFGHANISTAN
Notes: Provides a vivid portrait of Afghanistan, featuring in-depth interviews with the late Afghan resistance leader Ahman Shad Massoud, and Taliban soldiers being held by the Northern Alliance; and looks at refugees who speak of their suffering from the effects of Taliban rule.
Title: Afghanistan unveiled [videorecording]
Distributed by Women Make Movies, 2003
Call number: VC 305.42095/AFGHANISTAN
Notes: In November and December of 2002, 14 young women, trained as video journalists and camera operators, traveled to rural regions of Afghanistan to interview their countrywomen.
Title: The miseducation of Pakistan [videorecording]
Publisher: Newsline Films in association with the British High Commission and ActionAid Pakistan. Choices Inc., 2005
Call number: DVD 370.9549/MISEDUCATION
Notes: Using in-depth interviews and shocking footage, the filmmakers reveal a country where quality education is reserved only for a chosen few, while millions of children are denied the chance of a future.
Title: Motherland Afghanistan [videorecording]
Director: Sedika Mojadidi
Publisher: First-Run Features, 2007
Call number: DVD 614.5992/MOTHERLAND
Notes: English and Dari with optional English subtitles. Follows Dr. Qudrat Mojadidi as he attempts to curb the rising maternal mortality rate despite limited supplies, unsanitary facilities, and an untrained staff.
Title: A thousand splendid suns [audio compact disc]
Author: Hosseini, Khaled
Publisher: Recorded Books, 2007
Call number: CD FIC/HOSSEINI (Audio Compact Disc)
Notes: The author of the bestselling "The Kite Runner" offers a story that covers three decades of anti-Soviet jihad, civil war and Taliban tyranny through the lives of two women.
Spanish Language Materials
Title: Entender el Islam : orígenes, creencias, prácticas, textos sagrados, lugares sagrados
Author: Gordon, Matthew
Publisher: Blume, 2004
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 8480765054
Call number: SPA 297/GORDON
Notes: Provides an accessible, well-written and evenhanded introduction to Islam, one of the world's fastest-growing religions.
Title: Las golondrinas de Kabul
Author: Khadra, Yasmina
Publisher: Alianza Editorial, 2006
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 8420666165 (pbk.)
Call number: SPA FIC/KHADRA
Notes: Set in Kabul under the rule of the Taliban, this novel takes readers into the lives of two couples.
Title: El Islam
Author: Waines, David
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 8483233010
Call number: SPA 297
Notes: For this revised and updated Second Edition, David Waines has added a long section tackling head-on the issues arising from Islam's place in the changing world order at the turn of the new millennium.
Title: Los Talibán : el Islam, el petróleo y el nuevo gran juego en Asia Central
Author: Rashid, Ahmed
Publisher: Ediciones Península, 2001
ISBN: 848307334X
Call number: SPA 958.104/RASHID
Notes: The most extreme and radical of all Islamic organizations, the Taliban, inspires controversy and especially fear in both the Muslim world and the West.
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