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Indians: Bhangra, The Namesake, Shantaram, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Bollywood, residency, The Kite Runner, Jhumpa Lahiri, Indian food and my passport.
FORBES: What Women Like Most Is...Mostly Alicia Keys
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If you've been anywhere near an airport bookstore, you know "The Kite Runner" is also a best-selling novel written by Khaled Hosseini.
NPR: Film Roles Lead to Fear in Afghanistan
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Middle Easterners: Different cultures, petite, my friends, scarves, The Kite Runner, big eyes, New Wave, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Alicia Keys and bagels.
FORBES: What Women Like Most Is...Mostly Alicia Keys
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"The Kite Runner" was originally scheduled for a November 2nd release, but the opening was delayed six weeks so the boy actors could leave Kabul.
NPR: Child Actors Spirited Out of Afghanistan
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Mr. Hosseini's 2003 debut novel, "The Kite Runner, " about an Afghan refugee's attempt to atone for a childhood betrayal, spent nearly two years on the best-seller lists.
WSJ: Afghan Star Khaled Hosseini's New Book
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The Kite Runner is brisk and bland, but if you've read the novel, you know it has a great melodramatic hook: As a boy, the Afghan narrator stood by and did nothing when his little friend, the son of his father's servant, was raped by bullies.
NPR: Movie Madness (Some of it Genius) for the Holidays
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The runner-up Grand Prix Silver Lion went to Lebanese-born Randa Chahal Sabbag's The Kite - a film about love and separation on the Lebanese-Israeli border.
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