When a kite is killed and begins to flutter to earth, gangs of children — the kite runners — estimate, race and fight to acquire the defeated kites. (Read a story about the kite-maker of Kabul.) ...

"This is my homeland." Down in the Shoar Bazaar, the premier kite market in Kabul, Agha's kites are much in demand. They sell with at least a 60 percent mark up, and many customers will buy no others.

He proudly calls one of them “the second best kite maker in Kabul,” although he insists that she will never be as good as he is. “I have 45 years’ experience.

To celebrate the victory, of sorts, in Afghanistan, I plan to go out this afternoon to an open field, probably at Willett School in Attleboro, and fly a kite.

To mark one year since the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, Good Chance Theatre is launching the first edition of Fly With Me, a festival of Afghan kite-flying, storytelling, music, poetry and ...

Kabul kite-maker stars behind scenes in Hollywood movie By Reuters August 9, 20072:10 PM PDTUpdated April 12, 2007 ...