Shaista Wahab has written
Dari
Dari (, , ), also known as Dari Persian (, ), is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan. Dari is the term officially recognised and promoted since 1964 by the Afghan government for the Persian language,Lazard, G.Darī ...
language books. Her book ''A Brief History of Afghanistan'' was published in 2007.
Wahab was a librarian and professor at the
University of Nebraska at Omaha
The University of Nebraska Omaha (Omaha or UNO) is a public research university in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 1908 by faculty from the Omaha Presbyterian Theological Seminary as a private non-sectarian college, the university was originally kn ...
where she coordinated the Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection in the
Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library Archives & Special Collections.
An oral history specialist, she served as a consultant to the
Afghanistan Unveiled' (2002-2003) film project by Independent Lens, which was later picked up by PBS.
References
External links
Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection Archives & Special Collections,
Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library,
University of Nebraska at Omaha
The University of Nebraska Omaha (Omaha or UNO) is a public research university in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 1908 by faculty from the Omaha Presbyterian Theological Seminary as a private non-sectarian college, the university was originally kn ...
Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection Bibliography, Volume I: Pashto and Dari Titles Lincoln: Dageforde Publishing, 1995.
Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection Bibliography - Volume II: English and European Languages Lincoln: NE.: Dageforde Publishing, 2000.
Afghanistan Unveiled
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Afghan educators
Living people
21st-century Afghan historians
Women historians
University of Nebraska Omaha faculty
21st-century Afghan women writers
Year of birth missing (living people)