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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"Afghan"”.
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Weaving Borders, Mapping Place: Afghan War Rugs of the Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989)
Early Afghan war rugs delineate place through their pictorial design, embedding spatial memory into the tactile surface of the woven field. Emerging in the wake of the Soviet invasion in the late 1970s, these rugs integrate modern war iconography of tanks, helicopters, and maps into a medium …
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Educated Afghan women in search of their identities
… educated and uneducated working women of Kabul, Afghanistan, during 1986-88, to determine how these women dealt with the dual role of home and office while the predominant tradition of Islam encourage their confinement to the private domain of home, and to the role of mothers and housewives. An …
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Perceptions of Transportation Mobility Among Afghan Refugee Women
Already home to an established Afghan American community, the Washington D.C. metropolitan region has seen a further increase in the number of Afghan refugees since the Fall of Kabul in 2021. This study explores the perceptions of mobility among Afghan refugee women as they resettle in their new …
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Cultural Consensus Model of Depression Beliefs Among Afghan Refugees
… gender-specific beliefs about depression among Afghan refugees, a population shown to be highly distressed. A 73-item questionnaire covering causes, symptoms, and treatments of depression, developed through free-listing techniques and supplemented with items from existing scales, was …
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Justifying jihad: US politics, propaganda and the Afghan mujahedeen
… the potential for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 to embroil their super-power rival in a ‘Vietnam-like quagmire.’ Their covert operation to arm the mujahedeen is well documented. This dissertation argues that propaganda and public diplomacy were powerful and essential …
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Understanding the Afghan Diaspora: Exploring the Factors Driving Migration and the Impact of Migration Policies on Recent Afghan Evacuees Resettling in the United States
<p>Afghanistan has been at war with the West since the late 1900’s, remaining in a state of constant turmoil. During the Cold War (1979), Afghanistan had fought a war with the Soviet Union, known as the Soviet- Afghan War. During this time, Afghanistan was invaded by both the Soviet and US, …
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There is no Afghanistan: the historic indeterminacy of Afghan sovereign identity
… this project will focus on the specific case of Afghanistan. This country is largely seen as a very straight-‐forward example of classic state failure. Yet it displays attributes which are quite different from many of those often assumed in both liberal and critical scholarly literature. …
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Rights in Flux: The Rights of Afghan Women in Different Eras
Have the lives of Afghan women improved since the U.S. invasion of October of 2001? Historically, the George W. Bush Administration followed past foreign governments, Afghan political parties, and Afghan regimes who also promised to "liberate Afghan women" when making the case for war or violence. …
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Reading between the lines, 1839-1939 : popular narratives of the Afghan frontier
… Elphinstone and WaIter Scott, created an 'Afghanistan of the mind' over a century of British engagement. Using the quantitative methodologies of book history, my thesis sheds light on the public responses to three successive Anglo-Afghan wars, and the reception of the writings to which …
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Understanding the Afghan Newcomer Experience from the Perspectives of Teachers and Students
… the school experience of newcomer ELs from Afghanistan from their perspective as well as from the perspectives of their teachers and administrators. Though the students expressed enthusiasm for school and appreciation for their teachers, they also struggled to learn and felt isolated from …
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Afghan women and the culture of care in a Kabul maternity hospital.
Female Afghan healthcare providers are vital to reduce the number of women dying in labour. Since 2001 the numbers of female providers have been substantially increased. Ensuring quality care for women in childbirth, however, remains a more elusive goal. The aim of this qualitative ethnographic …
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Optimization-based selection of influential agents in a rural Afghan social network
… assignment problem in counterinsurgency in Afghanistan, the problem of deciding on the people whom US forces should engage through outreach, negotiations, meetings, and other interactions in order to ultimately win the support of the population in their area of operations. We developed three …
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Health of Afghan Refugees in Iran and Germany – Population and Health Systems Perspectives
… refugees including over 6 million refugees from Afghanistan. Iran and Germany are the primary host countries for Afghan refugees in the Middle Eastern and European regions, respectively. Globally, host countries encounter major impediments in equitably addressing the general and healthcare needs …
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Ethnicized displacements: Urban lives of Afghan Pashtuns and Afghanistani Hazaras in Quetta, Pakistan
… compares the urban lives of displaced Afghan Pashtuns and Afghanistani Hazaras, focusing on how ethnicization of their subnational identities shapes their everyday experiences. I explore how displaced Afghans in Quetta, Pakistan, navigate and resist multi-layered minoritization, …
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The Cultural Shaping of Depression: A Qualitative Investigation Into Afghan Women’s Perspectives on Depression
… services. Because little is known about Afghan refugee women’s conceptualization of depression, this study explores their conceptualization of depression and their help-seeking behaviours. First and second generation Afghan women were recruited to participate in focus groups and …
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Drugs in the News: What Do the Afghan News Media Say About Illicit Drugs?
… opinion and shaping drug policies. However, in Afghanistan, the world’s largest opium producer, very little is known about the media coverage of illicit drug issues. Afghan media, especially radio and television have developed dramatically during the past 11 years. Using the theories of agenda …
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Education in places of temporary asylum : the case of Afghan refugees living in Peshawar
This is an exploratory case study that documents Afghan refugees' educational experiences in Peshawar, Pakistan. The central question of this thesis asks: how Afghans educational needs are met through the educational/training institutions available to them? In the absence of theoretical studies on …
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