Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.

Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.

A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.

I have been involved with the UN refugee agency for a few years now, and we have done events to speak about refugees, focusing more and more on the situation with Afghan refugees.

There are so many orgizations that do amazing work. I represent not only my own foundation, but the UN Refugee Agency, which has been around since 1951, and has helped 30 million refugees around the world.

Michael Bealmear is a philanthropist, and he has become interested in the issue of refugees, and he proposed that we do an event in his community, where we could dedicate an entire evening focused on the global refugee crisis, focused primarily on Afghanistan.