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).

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

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.

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, ...

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 ...

The Taliban swept into the capital of Kabul and seized most of Afghanistan in a blitz in mid-August 2021 as the U.S. and NATO forces were in the last weeks of their pullout from the country after ...

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.

Her sister, who was a journalist in Afghanistan during the U.S. occupation, is still in Afghanistan with her family and cannot work. Khalili also has family — her father, brother and stepmother — at a ...

A Cyclist’s Throat Cut and Another’s Head Sliced By Kite String on N.Y.C. Bridge A man's throat was slit, and "he suffered profound blood loss and damage to his windpipe,” reads a GoFundMe ...