War rages in the south and east, but relatively stability has returned to the Afghani capital of Kabul. With it have come kite-fighting and the so-called "kite runners" described by author Khaled ...

They say time heals everything. Give it time. Time will tell. But does it? Or does time ask for too much — silence, forgetting, pretending — before it gives anything back? In The Kite Runner, even ...

Growing up, Ilham Uddin Hussaini used to chase kites with his friends in Afghanistan to escape the realities of a war he didn't really understand. Today, he's chasing a long-held dream of owning a ...

Drama telling the story of two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, who grew up together in 1970s Kabul. Many years later, Amir, now a writer living in America, returns to his native Afghanistan.

Hosseini was born in Kabul in 1965 ... how “The Kite Runner” gave them a more nuanced and maybe a more human and compassionate perspective on Afghanistan and its people and everything that ...

Few novels leave an imprint on our minds quite like The Kite Runner. Khaled Hosseini’s powerful story of friendship and redemption, set against the backdrop of Afghanistan’s turbulent past ...

These words from Khaled Hosseini’s acclaimed novel The Kite Runner became symbolic of the ... of the Taliban regime (dominated by Sunnis) in Afghanistan led to the persecution of the Hazara ...

The Kite Runner is a haunting tale of friendship spanning cultures and continents, that follows one man's journey to confront his past and find redemption. Afghanistan is a divided country on ...