The warlords took part in atrocities during the civil war in Afghanistan. They looted, they raped, they killed. They have become incredibly empowered….

At times , he didn't understand the meaning of the Koran's words . But he said he liked the enhancing sounds the arabic words made as they rolled off….

She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on ….

I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night..

A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope..

It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out..

Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was….

She was an extraordinary woman, and I went to bed that night feeling like I was perhaps more than ordinary myself. This was the effect she had on me..

President Karzai is an incredibly kind and decent man. I had the pleasure of meeting him, and he genuinely cares for his people. But I think he had t….

I have been a fan of comic books since childhood..

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry..

After all, life is not a Hindi movie..

At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent..

Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, ….

He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. ''For you a thousand times over!'' he said. Then he smiled his Hassan smile and disappeared….

If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community..

You don't order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them 'sister' the next..

A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you..

I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin an….

The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts..

At the door , she made him promise to go without goodbyes .She closed the door on him . Laila leaned her back against it , shaking against his poundi….