MATERIAL ON AFGHANISTAN

     SCA is publishing a number of books and other material on Afghanistan. A map on Afghanistan and postcards are also published by SCA. More material is available in Swedish.

Below is a list of publications in English sold through SCA in Stockholm.

The material may be ordered directly from us. Prices indicated exlude costs for freight and bank charges.

  TALIBAN Islam, Oil and the New Great Game in Central Asia
by Ahmend Rashid

  • "This is an impressive and eminently readable analysis of the Taliban movement. The author is especially well-placed, having covered Afghanistan for two decades and having direct access to policy-makers in Pakistan, Iran and Central Asia. It would be hard to see how anyone could rival this account: it bids to be the leading book on the subject."
    Professor Fred Halliday, London School of Economics

Ahmed Rashid is the Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and the Far Eastern Economic Review. He also broadcasts regularly with the BBC, CNN and other international news organisations.
Price 200 SEK

Afghanistan, Aid and the Taliban: Challenges on the eve of the 21st century
By Nancy H. Dupree, Anders Fänge, Anthony Hyman, Michael Keating, Olivier Roy

  • Does Afghanistan have a future, and what would it bring? What can the rest of the world do? These questions and many others were discussedat a conference arranged by the SCA and the Swedish Institute of Foreign Affairs in February 1999. Some answers may be found in this book, where the lectures are reproduced.
    Published by SCA with financial support from Sida. Booklet, 87p.
    Price 120 SEK

A Historical Guide to Afghanistan
by Nancy Hatch Dupree      

  • This travel guide is sad reading in a time when tourist trips to Afghanistan have become an unrealistic dream. However, the description of the historical sites and other things worth visiting are fascinating, and hopefully most of them will still be there when the political situation allows travelling again inAfghanistan, a country with such a rich historical heritage.
    Published by Afghan tourist organisation, Kabul, 2nd ed 1977.
    Price 200 SEK.

Women in Afghanistan
By Nancy Dupree

  • During the Annual Meeting of SCA in 1996, the American historian Nancy Dupree was invited to elaborate on "The Afghan women?s role in the rehabilitation of the country - problems and possibilities". The situation for women in Afghanistan before the war, for women in rural areas, and for women in the future are here presented as they were described by Dupree.
    Published by SCA. Booklet, 24 p.
    Price 20 SEK

Noshe Djan. Afghan Food & Cookery
By Saberi Helen

  • Are you curious on Afghan food? This is an excellent cook book for you who want to try on your own in the kitchen. The book contains over a hundred different recipes for soups, salads, pasta, meat dishes, deserts, etc.
    Published by Prospect Books, Devon 1996. Paper-back, 160 p.
    Price 150 SEK

Die Kunst des alten Afghanistan ? Keramik, Siegel, Architektur, Kunstwere aus Stein und Metall
By Viktor Sarianidi

  • Sarianidi, a member of the Russian academy of science , gives in this richly illustrated book an insight into the old Afghan history and culture. In the end of the seventies, he led the archaeological excavations in the north of Afghanistan, leading to the discovery of the century: the almost 3 000 year old graves in Tela Tepeh containing for instance 20 000 different objects of gold.
    Published by VEB E.A. Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1986.
    Bound, unique photos and drawings, 348 p.
    Price 250 SEK

Landmines, Legacy of Conflict. A manual for development workers.
By Rae Mc Grath, Director of Mines Advisory Group

  • The most common mines are described: how they are developed technologically and how they are spread. Furthermore, the vulnerability of some groups in the rural areas is described. Questions discussed are i.e. the best way to avoid risky areas,  what the mine affected societies can do themselves, and which measures can be taken on local and international level to deal with the problems. The book functions as a manual for aid workers (planners and policy responsible persons) in conflict and mine affected areas.
    Published by Oxfam, Oxford 1994. Paper back 86 p.
    Price 100 SEK

After the Guns Fall Silent: The enduring legacy of landmines
By Shawn Roberts and Jody Williams

  • The Nobel price winner Jody Williams, together with Shawn Roberts, gives a detailed documentation of the devastating effects of landmines. Long after the peace agreements have been signed and the soldiers have left the battlefield, mines claim victims among civilians. The modest military effects of landmines are shadowed by the long-term losses in all parts of the society. Those who try to rebuild the country are those who pay the price. The authors mean that the USA should cut down their own use of anti-personal mines and challenge other countries to follow.
    Published by Vietnam Veterans of American Foundation, Washington D.C., 1995. Paper Back 554 p.
    Price 200 SEK

Map of Afghanistan with a 16-pages index.

Scale 1:1 500 000, six colours, 70 x 100 cm.
Price: 75 SEK . 10-49 copies: 60 SEK each. More than 50 copies: 50 SEK each.

Postcards

Five colour prints from Keshim, where thousands of children get their schooling guaranteed through the support from private donors in Sweden.
Photo: Peter Hjukström
Price 35 SEK/pkt

Five colour motives from rural Afghanistan with women and children in focus.
Photo: Maria Söderberg

 

A unique package of postcards with five historical motives from 100 ? 600 A.C. The postcards are sold for the benefit of the Society for the Preservation of Afghanistan?s Cultural Heritage.
Photo: Louis Dupree, archaeologist and historian
Price 35 SEK/pkt


Price 35 SEK/pkt