Occupation: Novelist Birth: March 4, 1965
I came from an educated, upper middle-class family. My mother was a Persian and history teacher at a large high school for girls. Many of the women i….
You have these crops of poppies that supply something like 90% of the heroin sold in Europe and actually represents more than half of the Afghanistan….
It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it sque….
the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.
For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had managed to liv….
At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem..
Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up..
Blood is a powerful thing.
You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not….
Equally important is the lack of cultivable land for farmers, a profound problem when you take into account that Afghanistan has always largely been ….
I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhe….
Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history..
We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students here in the Bay….
There is a way to be good again..
I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the su….
There [in Afghanistan ] is a tremendous need for selter. So I am focusing most of the efforts of the foundation to building shelters for refugees in ….
No one has to know. No one would. It would be her secret, one she would share with the mountains only. The question is whether it is a secret she can….
In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create..
How many more people right now feel connected to Mumbai because of Slumdog Millionaire, or suddenly are interested in the plight of orphans on Mumbai….
The truth is that no one who hasn't actually experienced the senseless chaos and violence of combat can possibly understand it, but those who have an….
Laila remembered Mammy telling Babi once that she had married a man who had no convictions. Mammy didn't understand. She didn't understand that if sh….