Acclaimed Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini, famous for his novels ‘The Kite Runner’ and ‘One Thousand Splendid Suns’ visited a Syrian refugee camp in northern Iraq, where he was greeted not by pain and suffering, but inspiration.
The author, a former refugee and now a UN Goodwill Ambassador, had the chance to sit and talk with women who found their way to pursue their passion and profession in the midst of “a suspended existence.”
“I had the chance a meet people who lost a lot, whose lives should be turned upside down,” he says. These women, determined and unbreakable, impressed Hosseini as he delved into their life story. “I met a young woman named Nayleen; she had this unshakeable sense of confidence. What I really found remarkable is that she really took a great pride in the fact that she is a profesional”.
“It is such a weird thing about life, that feelings of beauty and moments of grace can come out of tragedy and enormous suffering,” he observed as he sat on a hill overlooking the camp.