The Age of Orphans by Laleh Khadivi

Further Reading:

Fiction

• The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmin Khadra
• Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriyar Mandani’pur
• Chanda’s Wars by Allan Stratton
• Cotton by Christopher P. Wilson

Non Fiction

• A Thousand Sighs, A Thousand Revolts: Journeys in Kurdistan by Christine Bird
• Nowhere to Hide: a Mother’s Ordeal in the Killing Fields of Iraq and Kurdistan by Susan Francis
• The Flying Carpet of Small Miracles: a Woman’s Fight to Save Two Orphans by Hala Jaber
• The Kurds: a People in Search of Their Homeland by Kevin McKiernan
• The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War by Asne Seierstad

Further Information/Research:

• AKA Kurdistan   www.akakurdistan.com
• American Kurdish Information Network  www.kurdistan.org
• International Committee of the Red Cross: Children and the Ravages of War

           www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/children-interview-171109?opendocument

• Kurdistan Commentary: http://kurdistancommentary.wordpress.com

Further Watching:

• The Kite Runner (2007) starring Khalid Abdalla

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