The Kite Runner’s film adaptation left out the emotional depth, cultural complexity, and moral reckoning that made the book ...

It is a sweeping story of family, love and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last 30 years. The second book is A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007).

A Wake County public school committee rejected a book challenge to remove Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner from high school curriculum for world literature.

A Wake County public school committee rejected a book challenge to remove Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner from high school curriculum for world literature.

"The Kite Runner" is an award-winning but frequently challenged historical novel by Khaled Hosseini set in war-torn Afghanistan. Wake County's Central Instructional Materials Committee voted 9-1 ...

What Kabul does to you, what Afghanistan does to you, is it strips you down to the basics, stripping away many choices and options. At the supermarket, you have two shampoos to choose from. That's it.

As a meditation on Afghanistan The Kite Runner will always have to stand in line with Siddiq Barmak’s disturbing Osama (2003), Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s incendiary Kandahar and Samira Makhmalbaf’s ...

Aynullah Rahimi's family has for decades tended the old cemetery in Kabul reserved for non-Afghans, but since the country's latest war ended and foreigners left in droves, he says few ...

UNHCR reports that more than 122 million people around the world have been forced to flee their homes due to war, violence, and persecution. While many arrive in unfamiliar places seeking protection, ...