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May.11.2011
Dear Friends,
In recent weeks I have been asked to comment on questions and controversies surrounding Greg Mortenson (author of Three Cups of Tea) and the Central Asia Institute (CAI). I am asked these questions because CAI and The Khaled Hosseini Foundation both finance the construction of...
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Feb.20.2009
"A nation stays alive when its culture stays alive."
This is the motto of the Kabul Museum, recently printed in bold letters on a banner above the entrance. In that spirit, I want to draw attention to a National Geographics exhibition that is presently on tour in the U.S. It is called...
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Jan.29.2008
Today is the day that we, as a community of writers, show our support and encouragement for one of our own, Patry Francis, author of The Liar's Diary. I remember how thrilled I was leading up to the publication day for my first novel. The idea of going from city to city and meeting people who had...
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Dec.03.2007
I write in the very early hours of the morning. Typically I get up at around 4 a.m., have cereal, read the San Francisco Chronicle, and heat up some black coffee. Then I head to our basement, where my writing den is located. I write for the next two to three hours (I pace quite a bit), before I...
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About Khaled
Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His father was a diplomat with the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother taught Farsi and History at a large high school in Kabul. In 1976, the Afghan Foreign Ministry relocated the Hosseini family to...