Khaled Hosseini
Born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1965, Khaled Hosseini has become one of the most prominent Middle Eastern writers in the western world. His works include The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. Born into a wealthy family with a diplomat of the Afghan Foreign Ministry as a father, Hosseini was often influenced by the political background as well as any current political and controversial strife in the country. After moving from to Paris and back to Kabul again, and taking political refugee status in America after witnessing the horrors and blood stains left by the soviet coup, Hosseini received a medical degree in 1933. In 2006 he was named a goodwill envoy to the United Nations Refugee Agency and continues his work in Afghanistan with his self entitled foundation.