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    CULTURAL AND IDEOLOGICAL PERCEPTIONS OF THE OTHER IN KHALED HOSSEINI'S THE KITE RUNNER
    (2018-06) Amel BOUGUERRA, Aicha Nour El Islam MAADADI
    ABSTRACT Afghanistan has suffered brutal civil war in addition to foreign invasions in the form of the 1979 Soviet invasion and 2001 U.S invasion . These political and historical instabilities cost Afghanistan a cultural and ideological misconception by the west . It is largely depicted by western writers as the land of terrorist , barbaric, and cultureless people . Khaled Hosseini tried to manipulate these perceptions in his debut novel The Kite Runner through an intensive portrayal of Afghanistan's culture , ethnicity, religion and society within a historical context . In this dissertation , we address the question of how Khaled Hosseini could make westerners rethink Afghanistan and its people and eventually an impact on their cultural and ideological perception of the Other. The dissertation provides a vivid analysis of the Kite Runner's orientalist aspects, characters , and portrayal of extremism as well as the way it bridges west and east worlds. This analysis goes in parallel with the study of the novel's historical context spanning from monarchical to democratic Afghanistan . The study focuses mainly on how the Kite Runner as a New-Orientalist narrative could influence the western public's Understanding of Afghanistan's culture and people . Key