Article: Thirty years of kites, weddings and funerals in Afghanistan Actor Khalid Abdalla fell in love with the vibrancy of Kabul while filming 'The Kite Runner' there, he tells Evan Fanning.

Thirty years of kites, weddings and funerals in Afghanistan

Actor Khalid Abdalla fell in love with the vibrancy of Kabul while filming 'The Kite Runner' there, he tells Evan Fanning

KHALID Abdalla leans forward to show the scars he picked up while in Af-ghanistan. It's fair to say that while technically they are scars, they're unlikely to impress any soldiers who have served in what was the front-line of the War on Terror in those post-9/11 days.

The 26-year-old British actor's permanent reminders of his time in the Afghan capital, Kabul, are in the form of marks on his fingers earned while learning to fly a kite in preparation for his role as the grown-up Amir in ...

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