Shaista Wahab is an Afghan writer.
She has written Dari language books.
[1] Wahab was a librarian and professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha where she coordinated the Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection in the Dr. C.C.
and Mabel L. Criss Library Archives & Special Collections.
[2] An oral history specialist, she served as a consultant to the Afghanistan Unveiled (2002–2003) film project by Independent Lens, which was later picked up by PBS.