Zekeria Ebrahimi is an Afghan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

 actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

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Ebrahimi is possibly best known for his role in the 2007 film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner is a novel by Khaled Hosseini. Published in 2003 by Riverhead Books, it is Hosseini's first novel, and was adapted into a film of the same name in 2007....

as Young Amir.

He has received extensive media coverage for playing the role of Amir in the film The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner (film)

The Kite Runner is a 2007 drama film directed by Marc Forster based on the novel of the same name by Khaled Hosseini. It tells the story of Amir, a well-to-do boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, who is tormented by the guilt of abandoning his friend Hassan, the son of his father's...

, both because of his acting talent and because of the cultural misunderstandings that surrounded the making of the film and are thought to have endangered his life at home in Afghanistan.

External links

• Official site of the film The Kite Runner
• Dean Nelson, "Kabul kite boys feel Hollywood backlash", The Sunday Times
  The Sunday Times
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  , January 14, 2007. Accessed 8 January 2008.
• David M. Halbfinger, "‘Kite Runner’ Boys Are Sent to United Arab Emirates", New York Times, December 3, 2007. Accessed 8 January 2008.
• Herald Sun
  Herald Sun
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  (Melbourne) December 06, 2007. Accessed 8 January 2008.
• Jay Stone, "Child actors' performances keep The Kite Runner aloft", The Vancouver Sun
  The Vancouver Sun
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  , December 21, 2007. Accessed 8 January 2008.
• The Evening Standard
  Evening Standard
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  (London), December 27, 2007. Accessed 8 January 2008.