And here she was now, over those boulders and parched hills, with a home of her own, a husband of her own, heading toward on final, cherished province: Motherhood. How delectable it was to think of th...
And I dream that someday you will return to Kabul to revisit the land of our childhood. If you do, you will find an old faithful friend waiting for you.
America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no...
All my life, I have lived like an aquarium fish in the safety of a glass tank, behind a barrier as impenetrable as it has been transparent. I have been free to observe the glimmering world on the othe...
Agha, did you hear what Mullah Nasruddin did when his daughter came home and complained that her husband had beaten her? I could feel him smiling in the dark and a smile of my own formed on my face. T...
A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.
10- We went walking along the footpaths that snaked through vineyards and barley fields, looking down at our own shadows each preoccupied with our own thoughts. Mostly we wandered. There wasn’t much i...
But time can be a greedy thing- sometimes it steals all the details for itself
Mariam is in Laila's own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.
قوانين طالبان فور وصولها للحكم: .كل المواطنين يجب أن يصلوا خمس مرات فى اليوم. إذا كان وقت الصلاة وكنتم تقومون بشئ آخر فســــوف، تجلـــدون .على كل الرجال أن يتركوا لحاهم. والحجم الصحيح هو مقدار قبضة تح...
الأطفال هم الضحايا الحقيقيين لمعارك السوفييت المزروعة بالألغام. كان السوفييت يحبون أن يخبئوا المتفجرات داخل العاب ملونة وبراقة وإذا أمسك بها طفل انفجرت اللعبة لتقطع الأصابع أو اليد بأكملها، وبذلك لايس...
أريد أن أرى حلم أولادى يتحقق، أريد أن أرى اليوم الذى سيغادر فيه السوفييت إلى بلادهم مكللين بالعار، اليوم الذى يصنع المجاهدون النصر إلى كابول. أريد أن أكون هناك عندما يحدث ذلك، عندما تعود أفغانستان حرة...
These random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.
There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill a man, you steal a life... you steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a ath...
C'est une erreur d'affirmer qu'on peut enterrer le passé, il s'accroche tant et si bien qu'il remonte toujours à la surface.
Yalnızca bir günah vardır, tek bir günah. O da hırsızlıktır. Onun dışındaki bütün günahlar hırsızlığın çeşitlemesidir... Bir insanı öldürdüğün zaman, bir yaşamı çalmış olursun. Karısının elinden bir k...
Titanic city was born.It's the song, they said.No, the sea, the luxury, the ship.It's the sex, they whispered.Leo, said Aziza sheepishly. It's all about Leo.Everybody wants Jack, Laila said to Mariam....
Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.
Thinking of the anguish of his final days and my own helplessness in the face of it, makes everything I have done, everything I want to do, seem as unsubstantial as the little vows you make yourself a...
They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind. And now that I had...