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1. Afghan Food & Cookery: Noshe Djan
- Carved from a solid piece of wood for best sound - Natural brown wood finish - no paint to chip
- 4" Standard Medium size - Creates a realistic frog ribbit or croaking sound
- Fun percussion instrument - use as a guiro, rasp, or high pitch tone block
- Your purchase of this frog rasp helps support the efforts of Africa Heartwood Project .org
- Matching playing stick included.
Features:
There is a great book my brother found. We're Afghan, but my mom doesn't make all the old school afghan foods, because of health reasons. He found a great book that he ordered, that had everything we use to eat as kids, etc.
http://www.amazon.com/Afghan-Food-Cookery-Noshe-Djan/dp/0781808073/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1422152879&sr=1-1&keywords=afghan+cookbook
There were dishes on here that we never even had as kids either.
Documentaries:
Armadillo, about the Danish experience in occupied RC-S
National Geographic's Inside the Taliban covers the history of the Taliban
The Gem Hunter in Afghanistan covers some of the local terrain.
Fiction:
Safar e Gandahar is very difficult to watch because of the terrible acting, but is the only movie made in Afghanistan by Afghans that I know of
Tangentially related, Rambo III takes place in Afghanistan and paints the mujaheddin in a positive light for heroically battling against the Soviets.
ICG's "A FORCE IN FRAGMENTS: RECONSTITUTING THE AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY" (2010)
RAND's "The Long March: Building an Afghan National Army" (2009)
CSIS's "Afghan National Security Forces What It Will Take to Implement the ISAF Strategy" (2010)
DOD's "Enduring Voices: Oral Histories of the U.S. Army experience in Afghanistan, 2003-2005"
Musa Khan Jalalzai's "Whose Army? Afghanistan’s Future and the Blueprint for Civil War" (2014)
Ali al-Jalali, author of the Military History of Afghanistan, was the Interior Minister of Afghanistan. He oversaw the creation of a trained force of 50,000 Afghan National Police and 12,000 Border Police. He will give a talk on the Afghan military on Wednesday which you can watch live here. You can also read his 2002 paper on Rebuilding Afghanistan's National Army.
You might crosspost this on /r/AfghanConflict, /r/Military, /r/CredibleDefense, or /r/Geopolitics.
You may have already read it, but Afghanistan in the Course of History written by Mohammad Ghobar is one of the top sources of Afghan history translated into English. The book is very detailed.