Summary Amir recalls an event that happened twenty-six years before‚ when he was still a boy in Afghanistan‚ and says that that made him who he is. He lives in a nice home in Kabul‚ Afghanistan‚ with Baba‚ his father. They have two servants‚ Ali and his son‚ Hassan‚ who are Hazaras. One day‚ Amir and Hassan are playing when they run into three boys‚ the group of Assef. Assef threatens to beat up Amir for hanging around with a Hazara‚ but Hassan uses his slingshot to stop Assef. Hassan’s birthday
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3. An Analysis of the Situation of Afghan Refugees in Iran Abas Abdie Introduction The influx of 25 to 30% of the Afghan population to Iran and Pakistan over the years has made an in-depth study of their situation necessary. The importance of such a study becomes evident when we take into consideration that there is a basic difference between Afghan refugees in Iran‚ refugees in Pakistan and refugees in other parts of the world. Any kind of planning for the reception
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MHF Module: Understanding Differences Understanding Differences Worksheet Research a culture from a country that is different than your own. Complete the table below for the culture you chose. Include 50 to 150 words for each response. Culture: Afganistan Topic Cultural View of the Topic Raising children Raising children in this country is extremely harsh‚ many children are introduced to abuse‚ violence‚ neglect and exporiation. During the years of war‚ hundreds of children have been used
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This movie is about two boys growing up in Afghanistan during the time just before the Russian soviet military came to disrupt the families and lives of people living in Afghanistan. Many families escaped to Pakistan and the United States. The two boys as children were friends and flew kites in competition with other children. This kite flying was a tradition there
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borded by Iran in the west‚Afghanistan in the north-west‚China on tha north-east India on the east and Arabian sea on the south.Geographically Pakistan is located in South Asia.Persian gulf has a geographical importance and countries like Iran‚Iraq‚Kuwait‚Qatar‚Bahrain‚Suadia Arabia‚Oman‚UAE `etc.‚ are located along it.These MUlim countries possess the wealth of oil which has enhanced their importance.Pakistan has cardial relations with these countries. Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries
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“Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been‚ always will be. We are the true Afghans‚ the pure Afghans‚ not this Flat-Nose here.” This is the start of the tension between the two distinct social classes on pages 40-43 within the novel‚ The Kite Runner. The author’s purpose for placing this scene within the novel is to show the relationship held between the Hazara Tribe‚ and the Pashtun tribe‚ within Afghanistan. The scene in the book allows the reader to begin to understand the
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During the late 70s early 80s there was a strong disagreement between races in Afghanistan. In particular the Pashtun and the Hazarah. Two forms of the same religion but with only 1 difference. The Pashtun were higher up in the community than the Hazarah. The Pashtun were considered clean and fit to rule because they were primarily of pure descent unlike the Hazarah (Pashtun encyclopedia Britannica page 2). The Hazarah were looked down upon because they are usually of mixed families and were considered
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discrimination throughout The Kite Runner‚ impacting the lives of every character. The Taliban organization displays more hatred and aggression towards the people of Afghanistan more than any other organized group in the country. First off‚ the Taliban discriminate against woman‚ denying them their basic rights to work in Afghanistan. “Their mothers can’t feed them because the Taliban don’t allow them to work. So they bring them here” (Hosseini 266). Since the Taliban do not allow women to work‚ they
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Although the story of two women under oppression in Afghanistan during the Taliban’s rule may seem distant and irrelevant‚ Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns (418 pages) is a heart-wrenching historical novel that delves into the intertwined lives of Mariam and Laila‚ two women married to the same abusive husband‚ and the struggles they face. The novel takes place in Afghanistan‚ beginning in the 1960s with Mariam’s childhood and ending in the early 2000s with Laila and Tariq’s reunion. Poverty
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(later on became Bangladesh in December 1971) located more than 1000 miles (1600 kilometers) away in the Ganges River delta. Separated from each other‚ these two wings had 1000km wide Indian territory between them. On the West‚ Pakistan borders with Afghanistan‚ whose one kilometer narrow Wahkhan strip kept the defunct Soviet Union away from Pakistani frontiers. To the North‚ she has the Peoples Republic of China. The oil rich heart of the Persian Gulf region-Iran‚ is in the northwest of Pakistan. In the
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