Twins/pairs

clefts/chasms

faces

 

 

wazir akbar khan district

kabul

herat

King Nadir Shah/Zahir shah

Peshawar

Ghargha Lake

bildungsroman

brotherhood

 

atonement

redemption

loyalty

sin

 

broken bodies

glasses

legs

paralysis

harelip

eye gouged

 

ghazi stadium

 

Farsi

Urdu

Shar-e-nau section of Kabul (bazaars)

Shahnamah (Rostam and Sohrab story)

 

Jalalabad

Hazarajat

Kandahar

Mazar-i-sharif

Rawalpindi (Amir's project hospital)

Khyber Pass

Mahipar Falls

Torkham (Amir enters Afghanistan)--Landi Kotal o Shinarwi to Landi Khana

Bala Hissar Fort  on Shirdarwaza mountain range

Shah Faisal mosque

Margalla Hills

 

jadeh maywand (street)

orphanage in Shar-e-Kohna, the old city

physical manifestations of guilt

 

red/green/yellows often

 

bamiyan Valley/giant buddhas

Sherjangi ("Battle of the Poems")

 

 

NBC News clip on Kite Runner movie and Kite maker

Giant Buddhas

Shootout (History Chanel): Afghanistna's Deadliest Snipers "Coalition formces search for enemy combatants in the mountains of Afghanistan" (DishNetwork guide channel).

The True Story of Charlie Wilson (History channel)

Charlie Wilson's War movie

 

NBC article on the movie, the tensions surrounding its showing in Afghanistan, etc.

One of the coolest sites recording a personal trip to Afghanistan in 1977.

 

 

 

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