Afghan Serials Collection
The Afghan Serials Collection is a collection of rare newspapers and magazines from various political groups from the Wahdat Library, a comprehensive private collection from Afghanistan. The collection is accessible free of charge throughout Germany and at German institutes abroad via the national licence system.
The collection includes over 45 titles published from the early 1970s to the late 1990s, during a critical period for the country's history.
The Afghan Serials Collection contains press reports from different political eras and from a wide variety of groups and movements that sought to shape the social and intellectual landscape at this turbulent time. They range from the Taliban to anti-Taliban rebels, anti-Soviet jihadi and mujahideen groups to the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan.
The database contains unique press materials from a pivotal era that shaped not only Afghanistan and the Middle East, but the entire world. With content that has not been collected anywhere else, the collection is a testament to the diverse and vibrant Afghan press and an important resource for scholars and researchers of the region. The texts were published in Persian, Pushtu, Arabic, Urdu or English.
Members of a university can usually use an existing institutional registration. This procedure enables German universities, research institutions and academic libraries to use a simple Access without special login.
If your computer is not located in the campus area of your home institution, you should enquire locally about other access options (e.g. local login via VPN).
In order for access to be activated, institutions must have the National licence into their portfolio. Test here whether this is already the case for you. If you only reach a login page, you should ask your library to activate the collection.
Interested parties without access via a home institution can register for private access, provided they have their permanent residence in Germany. After successful Registration you will promptly receive your personal access data by post.