The background I, along with my wife Veronica Doubleday, have been engaged with the music of Afghanistan for the last 35 years. The foundation of my knowledge of Afghan music comes from 2 years fieldwork in Herat, and to a much lesser extent Kabul, in the 1970s. My first foray into the Afghan diaspora was in 1985, making the film Amir: An Afghan refugee musician's life in Peshawar, Pakistan. Si...

The migration of refugees not only facilitates but also increases the risk of the spread of infectious diseases such as viral hepatitis. During the two last decades, because of 23 years (1978—2001) of civil war in Afghanistan, a considerable number of Afghan people have left their homeland and have migrated to neighboring countries. Iran, as Afghanistan’s western neighbor, has hosted approximat...

Raisins are an important export commodity for Afghanistan; however, Afghan packers are unable to export to markets seeking high-quality products due to limited knowledge regarding their quality and safety. To evaluate this, Afghan raisin samples from pre-, semi-, and postprocessed raisins were obtained from a raisin packer in Kabul, Afghanistan. The raisins were analyzed and compared to U.S. st...

throughout the world, many migrant and mobile populations are at elevated risk for hiv. iran has a large immigrant population from neighboring afghanistan; however, few data exist on the prevalence of hiv in this community. in 2008, we conducted a study to assess the presence of hiv infection among 477 immigrants in a town to the northeast of tehran using a rapid test in the field. hiv prevalen...

evaluation of a malaria screening program was carried out in two screened afghan refugee camps in bardsir and rafsanjan and compared to non-screened afghan refugees within kerman, as well as refugees with malaria diagnosed by communicable disease control (cdc) laboratories in kennan and rafsanjan, by parasitological blood examinations. the study involved 456 residents of two refugee camps and r...

The studies on forced migrants' digitally mediated communication and transnational practices have not sufficiently addressed contexts in which migrants are imposed with strong regulations their physical mobility information technology (ICT), Internet, social media uses. This article studied Internet uses, digital divides (access, use, the impact of media), among Afghans Iran. More than three mi...