The Kite Runner Resources
Links:
Khaled Hosseini's personal website with bio information and essays by the author:
www.khaledhosseini.com
Official website for the movie:
http://www.kiterunnermovie.com/club/
Article released by Fox News highlighting controversy surrounding the movie:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,243630,00.html
National Geographic Society websites on Afghanistan:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/landincrisis/ethnic.html
http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_afghanistan.html
Article about the first fashion show in Afghanistan in over a decade:
"Afghans get a taste of the catwalk"
Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington, D.C.:
Embassy of Afghanistan website
Click on the Afghanistan category on the left for information on the geography, culture, etc.:
Visual Geography Series
ABC News Video Clips:
Buddahs of Bamiyan
Kite Running Returns To Afghanistan
Beauty School in Afghanistan
Unseen Afghanistan
CIA World Fact Book Entry for Afghanistan:
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/af.html
Afghanistan Peace Organization (modern culture including a TV Guide for Afghanistan):
www.afghanistan.org/
The New York Times website on Afghanistan with several articels and videos:
The New York Times- Afghanistan
Article and video in The Star profiling the song "I Am My Father's Son" by Dan Hill. This has great connections for father-son relationship in Kite Runner:
http://www.thestar.com/article/584095
Resources for teachers:
The University of Texas at Arlington resources page for The Kite Runner:
http://www.uta.edu/uac/one-book/resources-for-the-kite-runner
Webquest for teachers on The Kite Runner:
http://web.syr.edu/~rdiflori/webquest/kiterunner.html
http://www.onlib.org/website/reading/cnyreads/kite_runner/teaching.htm#reading
American Place Theater- Literature to Life: The Kite Runner Resource packet:
KiteRunner.pdf
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