![]() Kites reappeared immediately when the Taliban militia was driven from Kabul soon after September 11, 2001. Reports of the kite-flying ban inspired Khaled Hosseini to write his celebrated novel, The Kite Runner. Kite flying, the traditional sport of Afghan children, was banned under the fundamentalist Taliban regime, along with dancing, music, and a host of other activities. ![]() An Afghan boy flies a kite in the hills overlooking the city of Kabul. ![]() His imagination was also fired by movies from India and the United States, and he enjoyed the sport of kite fighting he portrayed so vividly in his book The Kite Runner. His father worked for the foreign ministry, while his mother taught Persian literature, and Khaled grew up loving the treasures of classical Persian poetry. His family lived in the affluent Wazir Akbar Khan district of the city, in a cultivated, cosmopolitan atmosphere, where women lived and worked as equals with men. Khaled Hosseini was born in Afghanistan, the oldest of five children, and spent the first years of his childhood in the capital city, Kabul. ![]()
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