"The author, a journalism professor at Michigan State University, recounts some of his successes and frustrations in establishing a program of journalism education in Afghanistan's capital city. He points out the importance of journalism and education to all the emergent nations, and urges AEJ to take an active role." (Abstract)

"Problems of the training of journalists in Afghanistan — Problems which are mainly political, economic and linguistic in character — Up to the present time the university has only given theoretical courses — There is also a shortage of good textbooks." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1139, topic code 163.1)