

International and the New York Public Library.Ħ. These partners include USA for UNHCR, the UN RefugeeĪgency The Khaled Hosseini Foundation Welcome.US Women for Women People-especially women and children-in Afghanistan and for refugeesĪll over the world.

Organizations that are working to provide humanitarian relief for The Kite Runner has partnered with some phenomenal

If you want your art to create meaningful social change With the help of culture consultants, The Kite Runner creates a humanizing and real portrayal of Afghan Muslim culture that is rare to find on Broadway, or in present-day media.ĥ. If you want to go beyond news cliches and expand what you know about AfghanistanĮvery news channel has its own idea of Afghanistan and, unfortunately, most of us have based our knowledge of a whole country on these cliches. There is Faran Tahir who is of Pakistani heritage, Azita Ghanizada who was a political asylum seeker from Afghanistan herself, Amir Malaklou who shares his Arab heritage with the story’s protagonists, the Iranian actor Houshang Touzie, and more.Ĥ. If you like to study how different authors adapt and present the same work of art, then you must check out the production as it makes its journey from being a novel to a film to, finally, an onstage production.ĭid you like reading The Kite Runner? Couldn’t put down your copy of A Thousand Splendid Suns and then wore out the dog-eared paperback of And the Mountains Echoed? Then you need to watch The Kite Runner on stage and see Hosseini’s world come to life.ģ. If you like text-to-stage adaptations of your favorite novels A new adaptation is presently playing on Broadway, and here are several reasons you may want to check it out.ġ.

Later in 2007, when the book was made into a film, the movie was nominated for multiple awards, including an Academy Award and a BAFTA Film Award. While news of American troops in Afghanistan crowded headlines, the book provided a glimpse into a pre-Soviet invasion, pre-Taliban Afghanistan. Released in 2003, Khaled Hosseini’s debut novel, The Kite Runner, became a sleeper hit in 2005 after being published in paperback, hitting the New York Times bestseller list and remaining there until 2007.
