Acknowledgements:

Many individuals and institutions have directly or indirectly contributed to the material on the Contemporary Afghan Farsi Poetry page. This webpage could not have existed without their contributions. Many thanks to all of them :

• The first three poems by Gulam Ahmad Naweed were posted by Hamed Massoumi on soc.culture.afghanistan during 1995-96. He also posted a short biography of Naweed.

• "Laalah-e Aazaad" by Ibrahim Safaa was posted on the Afghan mailing list by Tariq Baha.

• "Baabah Khaarkash" by Zia Qarizaadah was posted by Aziz Quraishi on the Afghan mailing list.

• The quartets of Khalilullaah Khalili and one or two other poems were from the material I got from Bibliotheca Afghanica in Liestal, Switzerland. The center is run by Mr. Paul Bucherer .

• The first three poems of Ustaad Khalili, the two poems by Karim Shaiwan and some other poems are from the publications I borrowed from the late Dr. Sayed Qassem Reshtya in Geneva, Switzerland.

• Several of Ustaad Khalili's older poems are from a collection of his works given to me by my old friend and classmate (in Afghanistan), Shar Ahmad Tookhi (US).

• The young poet, Wali Ahmad Shaker (US) was kind enough to permit me to include three of his recent poems on this page.

• Many thanks are due to Mahmud Sadjadi (Frankfurt) for the material from which the poems by Qahaar 'Aasi, Nabi 'Ashqari and Sayed Ismaa`il Balkhi were selected.

• A number of poems are from the material provided by Ms. Khaleda (Paris) including those by Tawakul Herawi, `Abdulhadi Dawi, Sarshaar Shamaali, Shabgir Pouladian. Many thanks!

• The poems by Wasef Bakhtari are from the material provided by Marziah Rafiqi (Paris).

• The poems by `Abdulqaader Abhar, Sulaiman Laayeq and two poems by Khalili ("Shekwah" and "Raah-e Nayyestan") are from the material accessed at the Bibliothèque de l'Institut d'Études iraniennes, Université Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle), Paris.

• Also thanks to Mohammad Hashim Rayek (US) for permission to include his poems.

• I would like to thank the personel at the CEREDAF-AFRANE center for hospitality. The Quartets by Sham'riez come from there.

• Thanks to Sandeep Mangla for help with ghostscript conversions used in the early days of this page.