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David B. Edwards

Williams College

David B. Edwards is the James N. Lambert ’39 Professor of Anthropology at Williams College. His interests include documentary film and visual culture, humanitarianism and post-conflict societies, and the Near East and South Asia. He is the author of numerous publications including: Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier (University of California Press, 1996), and Before Taliban: Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad (University of California Press, 2002). He also directed and produced the documentary film Kabul Transit (2006).

Edwards’s videos are used in this Choices Program curriculum unit:
The United States in Afghanistan

VIDEOS
What role might the Taliban play in the future of Afghanistan?
What are the most important things to understand about the rule of the Taliban?
How did the Taliban come to power?
Why was President Najibullah able to remain in power after the departure of the Soviet military?
What did the leaders of mujahideen groups want?
Why did Afghans join the mujahideen?
What were the social effects of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?
Why did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan in 1979?
Why should high school students learn about Afghanistan?
Who are you and what do you do?
What is the significance of the death of Osama bin Laden?
Why is there an insurgency in Afghanistan?
What are the divisions in Afghanistan today?
The United States in Afghanistan
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