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In his best-selling novels The Kite Runner (2003) and A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007), author Khaled Hosseini sets his stories across several tumultuous decades, reflecting the changes in Afghanistan, the country of his birth. But reading about the challenges there — the lingering effects of Taliban rule, the devastation caused by war, the plight of refugees returning to their country only to find their homes reduced to rubble — cannot compare to experiencing them first-hand, as Hosseini himself discovered in 2003, when he visited Afghanistan for the first time in 27 years.
In this gallery, Hosseini shares his memories from his trips to Afghanistan, explains the work that must be done, and how you can help.