Louis and Nancy Hatch Dupree Foundation

Here are links to some of the recent news coverage around the opening of the new ACKU building in Kabul:

Emma Graham-Harrison writes about the new Centre through the lens of Nancy's life in the Guardian.

William Dalrymple writes about Nancy's efforts to save Afghanistan's history in The Daily Beast.

Captain Edward Zellem writes a series of interviews with Nancy about ACKU on Film Annex.

Read about ACKU's work on the Afghanistan Analysts Network in "Inspiration in Kabul: Nancy Dupree and the Opening of the Afghanistan Centre".

Jay Price writes of Nancy's work for McClatchy Newspapers.

Thanks to the tireless efforts of Founder Nancy Hatch Dupree, Executive Director Abdul Waheed Wafa and all the staff of the Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University (ACKU), the new home of ACKU's extensive collection and program offices is scheduled to open officially on March 27, 2013.

The brand new ACKU facility will serve as a place for research, collaboration and exploration of issues relating to Afghan history and culture. With its gallery, reading and conference space that harken to traditional Afghan architecture within a state-of-the-art facility, ACKU will be a focal point in Kabul and further ACKU's mission of nation-building.

The gorgeous new home of ACKU could not have come to fruition without the generous financial support of the Afghan Government, the United States Agency for International Development, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, The Asia Foundation, the Royal Norwegian Embassy, and the many individuals who provided gifts to ACKU through the Dupree Foundation.

More photos can be found on our Gallery page: www.dupreefoundation.org/gallery.htm

The UA News, an online newsletter of the University of Arizona, features an article about an ongoing project of the University of Arizona Libraries (UAL) and the Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University (ACKU) to digitize and make widely available the material archived at ACKU. The team at UAL is led by Atifa Rawan, who was born and raised in Afghanistan, and Yan Han, who are working closely with ACKU staff. They have launched a website, Preserving and Creating Access to Unique Afghan Records, that houses the  3,500 digital documents that are available to date.

To read the article, visit http://uanews.org/story/ua-preservation-project-makes-afghanistan-history-available-to-world

"Kabul: A City at Work" is a multimedia project that depicts life in Kabul, Afghanistan. The website includes a short vignette of Nancy in which she talks about her lifelong work in Afghanistan, including ACKU. Click below to watch.

http://www.kabulatwork.tv/chapter/masters-and-servants/historian-pages/

Below is a link to a wonderful short video produced by Al Jazeera about Nancy Hatch Dupree and her work with the Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University. There's even a glimpse of the new Centre.  

If clicking on the video above does not work, copy and paste this link into your browser: http://www.aljazeera.com/video/asia/2013/01/20131135949120717.html