Karen Marble of Katy is on a mission to keep U.S. troops stationed in Afghanistan supplied with books to let them know she appreciates their efforts to keep America safe. Marble, 51, who is physically ...

MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan, April 29 (UNHCR) - As a law student, Abdol Hamid Ansari likes to play by the book - literally. The 25-year-old has started a library and mobile book fair in his northern ...

Today, thousands of books are imported each week alone from neighbouring Iran -- which shares the Persian language with Afghanistan -- through the Islam Qala border crossing in western Herat province.

Banned from education, a clandestine reading circle meets every week to pore over novels by Abbas Maroufi, Zoya Pirzad and Ernest Hemingway Four young women sit together, waiting for the phone to ring ...