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The Great Game: Afghanistan trilogy traces the invasions of the British, Russian and American forces and the battles of the Afghan people to resist them. Each of the three plays is a set of playlets that, collectively, present the historical drama. It is three separate dramas; they have no stars.

The plays are not connected by a narrative story; none of them has a running drama within it. Each is a collection of vignettes that, stitched together, tell the harrowing story of a country constantly under attack by some foreign power since its first invasion in B.

All of those foreign powers lose in the end, one Taliban mullah says, because the Afghans are just different from their invaders and do not want to be like them. The trilogy is not superb traditional drama because of the structure of the plays, but it is gripping theater in its own right.

Each of the plays is an engaging history lesson about a country whose story is unbelievably complex, filled with wars, revolutions, conquests, betrayals, coups, feuds and murders. It is one long history of battles and political crusades, some driven by religion and all filled with rivers of blood.

This theme of egomaniacal and stubborn invaders failing to conquer Afghanistan, repeated again and again, runs through all of the vignettes of the trilogy.

Part One is the most historical, with scenes starting in and running through The opener, with the powerful British army aghast at the annihilation of its 16, troops and camp followers, is haunting. The soldiers on the ramparts, the sound of the wind whistling through the mountains in the distance, terrified of their own demise, argue about British intervention in the country as they blow mournful dirges on their bugles.

This mourning over intervention runs through the entire play. The bulk of this collection is at Thompson library, but we are responsible for the Middle East portion of collections in Fine Arts, Business, Cartoon, and other libraries on campus.

Many other books on the Middle East particularly in Western languages, are available through OhioLink. We do not actively collect in these languages but are building a small reading collection to aid in language instruction. This is just a small part of the total Middle East collection. This collection contains the specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries and bibliographic tools, in Western and vernacular languages, necessary for the study of the Middle East, its languages and cultures and Islamic Studies.

Increasingly, reference sources are available in electronic format. We also subscribe to academic and popular journals from and about the Middle East.

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