鈥淭his is a call to humanity.鈥濃�擬alala Yousafzai
Over the past few weeks, the world has witnessed the ousting of the Afghan government and the rapid fall of each province and city to the Taliban. Tens of thousands have fled the country, many more desperate to do the same, while each day, escape seems less likely. We are bearing witness to a humanitarian catastrophe, as an entire generation of Afghans face an unknown future and a past that haunts their older generations.
Even prior to the drastically escalating events that have unfolded this summer, the state of education and literacy for Afghan children was bleak. In a country of just under , as estimated by the United Nations, a staggering . Sixty percent of those students missing from classrooms are girls.
Now, the future of education, particularly for women and girls in Afghanistan, is as perilous as it鈥檚 been in decades. Before the with many of her students, she burned the girls鈥� records 鈥渘ot to erase them, but to protect them and their families.鈥�
On Wednesday, September 29th, at 8:00 p.m. ET, 楼凤天堂 will host A Conversation with Khaled Hosseini.听The author of beloved, and often challenged, works that are published in 70 countries and have sold more than 40 million copies, Hosseini will join 楼凤天堂 in conversation as we process the current tragedy together and think about application in the context of literacy education.
贬辞蝉蝉别颈苍颈鈥檚 New York Times听bestsellers听The Kite Runner,听A Thousand Splendid Suns, and听And听the Mountains Echoed are favorites among students and teachers alike and have even heightened relevance in this academic year. In addition to his career as an author, Hosseini is a medical doctor and humanitarian. Hosseini is also a US Goodwill Envoy to the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan. Having been granted with his family as a teenager, this son of a history teacher is uniquely situated to discuss the educational and humanitarian crises that grip the Afghan people.
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