Rediscovering Afghanistan Awards, 2006
Division of Preservation and Access
American Institute of Afghanistan Studies, Durham, NC
Project Director: Hiromi L. Sakata
Outright: $118,012
Match: $13,000
Preserving and Cataloging the Radio Afghanistan Audio Archives
The digital reformatting of 2,600 hours of Radio Afghanistan analog
music tapes created from 1960 to 1980 that document a significant
period of Afghan history and culture.
New York University, New York, NY
Project Director: Michael Stoller
Outright: $302,774
Digitizing Afghanistan Publications, 1871 to 1930
Continuing the digitization of books, documents, and serials published in Afghanistan from
1870 through 1930 in the collections of the National Archives of Afghanistan and the Kabul
Central Library, adding digital images of 25,000 pages of materials to the Afghanistan Digital Library.