Word: amir
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...Kabul. Breathless news accounts heralded it as a harbinger of Afghanistan's rebirth; the killjoy Talibs were gone and music, which they had also banned, played at their wake. But in Khaled Hosseini's debut novel, The Kite Runner, this symbol of liberation serves only to remind Afghan refugee Amir of a past he has desperately tried to escape. Exiled to San Francisco, Amir revisits that past in a series of flashbacks set amidst Afghanistan's war-wracked history. What begins as a rosy portrayal of an affluent childhood in 1970s Kabul quickly turns into a wretched but compelling tale...
...streets and suqs of the capital the next morning, shop owners congratulated one another with handshakes and kisses when they arrived for work. "If this street could talk, it would tell you that Uday would take a girl off the street and rape her," says Amar Abdul Amir, 45. "But no one could say anything. Before I was afraid to talk to Baath Party members. Today I feel...
...course not. Remember: more often than not, victims of sex crimes get further victimized when they are outed. That's why no one unconnected to the case needs to know who they are, and that's why no respectable news organization identifies them. Amir Khalid Hussain Malaysia...
...They're all liars-Khatami, Khamenei and the others. We don't want them anymore." -Amir, 23-year-old Iranian, protesting in Tehran against his government...
...Number of years that Jawad Amir hid inside the walls of his parents' house in Iraq to escape an execution order...