Middle-East Fever

Another great book I finished in this trip-- The kite runner.

It's written by an Afghan Khaled Hosseini who fled to US with his family in 1980 when Russia attacked Afghanistan.

"He manages to provide an educational and eye-opening account of a country's political turmoil--in this case, Afghanistan--while also developing characters whose heartbreaking struggles and emotional triumphs resonate with readers long after the last page has been turned over. And he does this on his first try.-- Amazon reviews"

This weekend I went to see the movie 'Munich'. The story is based on the true events in 1972 Munich Olympics, that 11 Israeli athletes got murdered by PLO. The whole movie is surrounded by assassinations and continuous revenge, but the whole point it keeps expressing is that, behind all the fighting and killing, their only dream is merely to have their own homeland where they can pass on their culture and tradition to generation and generation.

No idea since when middle-east subjects started to interest me. Maybe since I happened to get an iranian friend whose culture is complete different from those I'm familiar with. I'm pretty suprised I found mid-east interesting, and apparently I'm even far away from local taiwanese people.