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Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal -…

— Khaled Hosseini

“She (Kamila Sidiqi) believes strongly that Afghans can shape their own future using business to create a healthy economy that offers opportunity and a…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.

— Khaled Hosseini

Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride…

— Khaled Hosseini

“the gains of women in Afghanistan once again directly contributed to war, as their fate was mixed into the powder keg of tension between…

— Jenny Nordberg

“And it helped me too because I could see that away from the politicians and their arguments, away from the suicide bombers and their…

— Andrea Busfield

“The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late…

— Khaled Hosseini

“the primary focus in Afghanistan was to “win the hearts and minds,” the Vaughns were enraged. The idea that the sensitivities and feelings of…

— Billy Vaughn

The Soviets held to the tradition of colonialism. They raped the country and killed many people. But they also built dams, electrical power plants,…

— Ahmed Rashid

“even if Noam Chomsky were right about everything, the Islamic doctrines related to martyrdom, jihad, blasphemy, apostasy, the rights of women and homosexuals, etc.…

— Sam Harris

Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this…

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had…

— Khaled Hosseini