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Title: Afghan partisan serials collection
Date (inclusive): 1968-2011
Collection Number: 2016C32
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Pushto; Pashto
Physical Description:
14 manuscript boxes, 24 oversize boxes
(53.8 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Consists of more
than four thousand individual issues of twenty-nine newspapers, journals, and
magazines published in Dari, Pushto, Arabic, and English by various Afghan
organizations (political and other) relating to political conditions and warfare in
Afghanistan. Afghanistan's social and intellectual landscape is represented by the
Taliban and anti-Soviet Mujaheddin groups; the communist People's Democratic Party;
exiled loyalists to the deposed Afghan monarchy; independent humanitarians and
intellectuals; and minority political parties that emerged following the post-2001
transition toward democracy. The digital collection is accessible in the Archives'
reading room or for Stanford affiliated users at
https://gpa.eastview.com/asc .
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library &
Archives
Originals closed; digital use copies available. Stanford affiliates may also access
the collection at
https://gpa.eastview.com/asc .
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library &
Archives.
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2016.
[Identification of item], Afghan partisan serials collection, [Persistent URL],
Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
The collection of newspapers, journals, and magazines in Dari, Pushto, Arabic, and
English represent the viewpoints of diverse groups, including the leftist
revolutionary People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, Zahir Shah-loyalists,
various factions of Afghan Mujaheddin and foreign-backed jihadists, the Taliban-led
government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, as well as the Karzai regime,
during a tumultuous period in the nation's history in which successive waves of
foreign influence and invasion destabilized the region, resulting in more than three
decades of armed struggle.
Print material in the collection covers events including the aftermath of the 1978
Saur revolution, the lives of political exiles and refugees in Pakistan, the complex
interactions of anti-Soviet insurgency groups and their foreign backers in the U.S.
and the Muslim world, the fall of Najibullah and civil war thereafter, the
radicalization of foreign fighters in Kunar and Tora Bora, the rise and fall of the
Taliban, the events of September 11, 2001, "Operation Enduring Freedom," the
establishment of Hamid Karzai as president, and the continuing International
Security Assistance Force (ISAF) coalition occupation. Ranging from radical
Islamists in favor of global jihad to cautious social democrats in support of civil
society, the collection demonstrates the extraordinary range of ideologies and
voices competing for mindshare in modern Afghanistan.
Many of the serials are vividly illustrated with reproductions of photographic
portraits, battlefield scenes, cityscapes, and martyrs fallen to various causes,
while others, in accordance with strict interpretation of Sharia law, eschew visual
imagery altogether.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Afghan partisan serials collection consists of serials issued by various Afghan
organizations (political and other) relating to political conditions and warfare in
Afghanistan. The digital collection contains more than 4,000 individual issues of 29
newspapers, journals, and magazines published in Dari, Pushto, Arabic, and English
and is accessible in the Archives' reading room or for Stanford affiliated users at
>https://gpa.eastview.com/asc
.
In the digital collection, each publication contains an English-language translation,
as well as vernacular text and transliterations of all titles, subtitles and
mastheads, and publishers. A holistic transliteration methodology was adopted which
was informed through recourse to WorldCat references and other digital holdings,
linguistic preference for Dari and Pushto words of Arabic origin (i.e. Hizb rather
than Hezb, or Mujaheddin rather than Mojahedin), and finally, popular convention and
deference to spellings preferred by the publication itself (Hewad rather than
Haywad, for instance). Lastly, true to the intent of the media as a fluid medium
that places a premium on communication and absorption of information, diacritical
markings that are a mainstay in scholarly publications are largely absent.
Discovery for newspapers is at the issue-page level; discovery for journals is at the
article level (with a rich search discovery possible for key words and names in
journal article titles and article authors). Presentation is in the form of scanned
images in PDF format.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Afghanistan -- History