A collection of materials originally published in Afghanistan has been preserved in microfilm format, and is available for lending from CRL (the Center for Research Libraries). MEMP (Middle East Materials Project) and SAMP (South Asia Materials Project) contributed funds to preserve these materials from the Library of Congress–Islamabad office. (Columbia is a member of both organizations) These materials include holdings from 1924 through 2010 and cover the last years of the monarchy’s rule in Afghanistan, civil war, foreign invasion, and the rule of the Taliban. The collection of materials includes general newspapers, cultural periodicals, and the publications of organizations as diverse as the Lawyers Association, trade unions, the Ministry of Defense, and the Ministry of Information and Culture. The titles were published in a variety of cities in Afghanistan and are written in Pushto, Persian, and Dari.
- Āvāz (Kabul, Afghanistan) 1985-1995 [gaps] microfilm record
- Difāʻ (Kabul, Afghanistan) 1995-2009 microfilm record
- Ḥaqīqat (Kabul, Afghanistan) 1924-1925 microfilm record
- Hirāt (Hirat, Afghanistan) 1943-1980 digital record | microfilm record
- Ḥuqūq va zindagī / nashriyah-i Anjuman-i Ḥuqūqdānān-i Jumhūrī-i Afghānistān (Kabul, Afghanistan) 1989-1991 microfilm record
- Jirgah (Kabul, Afghanistan) 1982-1995, 2002 microfilm record
- Kār (Kabul, Afghanistan) 1983-2010 [gaps] microfilm record
- Majallāh-i adabī Hirāt (Hirat, Afghanistan) 1932-1939 digital record | microfilm record
- Majallāh-i Baldīyah-i Hirāt (Hirat, Afghanistan) 1936-1939 digital record | microfilm record
- Mushārakat-i millī (Kabul, Afghanistan) 2002-2010 microfilm record
- Nangarhār – daily (Jalalabad, Afghanistan) 1964-2009 [gaps] microfilm record
- Nangarhār – monthly (Nangarhar, Afghanistan) 1957-2001 microfilm record
- Payām-i mujāhid (Parvan, Afghanistan) 1997-2010 microfilm record
- Puṣhtūn ẓhagh (Kabul, Afghanistan) 1942-1977 microfilm record
- Sanāʼī : siyāsī, adabī, ijtimāʻī (Ghazni, Afghanistan) 1952-2009 [gaps] microfilm record
- Shahādat (Kabul, Afghanistan) 2009-2010 microfilm record
- Sūrghar (Kandahar, Afghanistan) 2009-2010 microfilm record