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  "ar": "خالد حسيني",
  "en": "Khaled Hosseini",
  "ur": "خالد حسینی"
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  "ar": "خالد حسيني ⁦(وُلد في ٤ آذار ١٩٦٥ في كابل)⁩ روائي أفغاني أمريكي وطبيب سابق، مؤلف «عدّاء الطائرة الورقية» ⁦(٢٠٠٣)⁩ و«ألف شمس مشرقة» ⁦(٢٠٠٧)⁩ و«وردّدت الجبال الصدى» ⁦(٢٠١٣)⁩؛ لجأت أسرته إلى الولايات المتحدة سنة ١٩٨٠، ومارس الطب في كاليفورنيا عقدًا قبل أن يتفرغ للكتابة، وهو مبعوث حسن نوايا للمفوضية السامية لشؤون اللاجئين وصاحب مؤسسة لدعم اللاجئين الأفغان.",
  "en": "Khaled Hosseini (born 4 March 1965 in Kabul) is an Afghan-American novelist and former physician, author of The Kite Runner (2003), A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007) and And the Mountains Echoed (2013); his family took asylum in the United States in 1980, he practised medicine in California for a decade before writing full-time, and he is a UNHCR goodwill envoy and founder of a foundation supporting Afghan refugees.",
  "ur": "خالد حسینی ⁦(پیدائش 4 مارچ 1965، کابل)⁩ افغان نژاد امریکی ناول نگار و سابق طبیب ہیں، «دی کائٹ رنر» (2003)، «اے تھاؤزنڈ سپلینڈڈ سنز» (2007) اور «اینڈ دی ماؤنٹینز ایکوڈ» (2013) کے مصنف؛ ان کا خاندان 1980 میں امریکہ میں پناہ گزین ہوا، وہ دس برس طب سے وابستہ رہے، اور وہ یو این ایچ سی آر کے خیرسگالی سفیر ہیں۔"
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    "note": "Hosseini has described himself, in his own words in more than one text, as a secular Muslim: in a Beliefnet interview he said 'I consider myself a secular Muslim' and came 'from a fairly liberal and secular background', and his 2008 Washington Post op-ed begins 'As a secular Muslim, I too was offended'. That self-description names no school or order, his parents' practice is family background, and nothing in his own words states unbelief, so no school value and no atheist-or-sceptic value can be recorded. The value is therefore unknown, with his self-description preserved here in full.",
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   "source": "English Wikipedia article 'Khaled Hosseini' revision 1381398996 of 22 October 2026; Arabic Wikipedia article 'خالد حسيني' revision 76778047 of 26 September 2026; Wikidata item Q193116 revision 2562539541 of 30 October 2026 (all retrieved live in-session on 2 November 2026 via the MediaWiki API; the Wikidata revision re-asserted identical on a second query, and the item carries a religion statement of Islam generically (Q432), which under the lane's rules records as unknown). His self-description as a secular Muslim was verified in-session in the Beliefnet interview and in his 2008 Washington Post op-ed, both in his own words; it names no school, so the value stays unknown under the brief's instruction for this subject. The born_in edge targets place/kabul, verified present on origin/main in-session. No record or draft stub for him existed on main (checked against origin/main on 2 November 2026 by slug, name fragments and QID). The queue's 1965 birth year is correct.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "ملخص",
     "markdown": "خالد حسيني ⁦(وُلد سنة 1965)⁩ روائي أفغاني أمريكي ومبعوث حسن نوايا للمفوضية السامية لشؤون اللاجئين وطبيب سابق، حققت روايته الأولى «عدّاء الطائرة الورقية» (2003) نجاحًا نقديًا وتجاريًا، وتلتها «ألف شمس مشرقة» (2007) و«وردّدت الجبال الصدى» (2013) {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-en} {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-ar}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "حياته",
     "markdown": "وُلد حسيني في 4 آذار 1965 في كابل، أكبر خمسة أطفال لأب دبلوماسي وأم معلمة للفارسية، وقضى طفولة ميسورة في حي وزير أكبر خان {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-en} {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-ar}. انتقلت الأسرة إلى طهران سنة 1970 ثم إلى باريس سنة 1976، وفي سنة 1980 بعد الغزو السوفياتي لجأت إلى الولايات المتحدة واستقرت في سان خوسيه بكاليفورنيا {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-en}. درس الأحياء في جامعة سانتا كلارا والطب في جامعة كاليفورنيا في سان دييغو، ومارس الطب الباطني أكثر من عقد {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "أعماله",
     "markdown": "بقيت «عدّاء الطائرة الورقية» 101 أسبوع في قائمة نيويورك تايمز للأكثر مبيعًا، وتدور رواياته الثلاث كلها جزئيًا على الأقل في أفغانستان وبأبطال أفغان، ناشرة الوعي بشعب أفغانستان وثقافتها {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-en} {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-ar}. وهو مبعوث حسن نوايا للمفوضية وأسس مؤسسة خالد حسيني لدعم اللاجئين الأفغان العائدين {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-en}. واستلهم عمله القصير «صلاة البحر» (2018) من غرق الطفل السوري آلان كردي، وذهب ريعه إلى المفوضية ومؤسسته {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-en}. وصف حسيني نفسه بكلماته بأنه مسلم علماني، وهو وصف ذاتي لا يسمي مذهبًا، ولذلك سُجل دينه غير معروف مع حفظ هذا الوصف في حاشية البيانات {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-en} {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-ar} {cite:wikidata-khaled-hosseini}."
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     "heading": "المصادر",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-ar}\n- {cite:wikidata-khaled-hosseini}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Khaled Hosseini (born 1965) is an Afghan-American novelist, UNHCR goodwill ambassador and former physician whose debut novel The Kite Runner (2003) was a critical and commercial success, followed by A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007) and And the Mountains Echoed (2013) {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-en} {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-ar}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life",
     "markdown": "Hosseini was born on 4 March 1965 in Kabul, the eldest of five children of a diplomat father and a Persian-language teacher mother, and spent a privileged childhood in the Wazir Akbar Khan neighbourhood {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-en} {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-ar}. The family moved to Tehran in 1970 and to Paris in 1976, and in 1980, after the Soviet invasion, sought asylum in the United States, settling in San Jose, California {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-en}. He studied biology at Santa Clara University and medicine at the University of California, San Diego, and practised internal medicine for more than a decade {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Work",
     "markdown": "The Kite Runner spent 101 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, and his three novels have all been set at least partly in Afghanistan with Afghan protagonists, spreading awareness of Afghanistan's people and culture {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-en} {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-ar}. He is a Goodwill Envoy for the UNHCR and established the Khaled Hosseini Foundation to support Afghan refugees returning home {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-en}. His short work Sea Prayer (2018) was inspired by the drowned Syrian child Alan Kurdi, with proceeds to the UNHCR and his foundation {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-en}. Hosseini has described himself in his own words as a secular Muslim, a self-description that names no school, so his faith is recorded as unknown with that statement preserved in the data note {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-en} {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-ar} {cite:wikidata-khaled-hosseini}."
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     "heading": "Sources",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-ar}\n- {cite:wikidata-khaled-hosseini}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "خالد حسینی (پیدائش 1965) افغان نژاد امریکی ناول نگار، یو این ایچ سی آر کے خیرسگالی سفیر اور سابق طبیب ہیں؛ ان کا پہلا ناول «دی کائٹ رنر» (2003) غیر معمولی کامیاب ہوا، اس کے بعد «اے تھاؤزنڈ سپلینڈڈ سنز» (2007) اور «اینڈ دی ماؤنٹینز ایکوڈ» (2013) آئے {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-en} {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-ar}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "زندگی و کام",
     "markdown": "حسینی 4 مارچ 1965 کو کابل میں پیدا ہوئے، سفارت کار والد اور فارسی کی استانی والدہ کے پانچ بچوں میں بڑے {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-en} {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-ar}۔ خاندان 1970 میں تہران اور 1976 میں پیرس گیا، اور 1980 میں امریکہ میں پناہ لے کر سان ہوزے، کیلیفورنیا میں آباد ہوا {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-en}۔ انھوں نے طب کی تعلیم پائی اور دس برس سے زائد طبابت کی {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-en}۔ ان کے تینوں ناول افغانستان پر ہیں، اور وہ مہاجرین کی مدد کے لیے اپنی فاؤنڈیشن چلاتے ہیں {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-en}۔ حسینی نے اپنے الفاظ میں خود کو سیکولر مسلمان کہا ہے؛ یہ خود وصفی کسی مسلک کا نام نہیں لیتی، اس لیے ان کا مذہب غیر معلوم درج ہے اور یہ بیان ڈیٹا نوٹ میں محفوظ ہے {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-en} {cite:wikipedia-khaled-hosseini-ar} {cite:wikidata-khaled-hosseini}۔"
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     "heading": "مآخذ",
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