Get a first-hand look at women's lives in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban by following a team of female journalists. These 14 young women, some still teenagers, trained as camera operators and video journalists at the AINA (http://www.ainaworld.org/) Afghan Media and Culture Center in Kabul between July 2002 to August 2003. They used their new skills to document the harsh lives of rural...

Presented by the American Geographical Society Collection of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries, Afghanistan: Images from the Harrison Forman Collection is an online exhibit that documents the life and culture of Afghanistan in the late 1960s (several years before the Soviet Union invaded the country). Consisting of 186 images selected from a set of 733 slides of Afghanistan in the...

University of California Press: Electronic Editions (last mentioned in the April 18, 2000 Scout Report for the Social Sciences) has recently provided online access to the newly released book Before Taliban: Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad by David B. Edwards. The text consists of seven chapters, along with an introduction, glossary, and bibliography. The chapters are divided into three sections...