Khaled Hosseini tells his refugee story

Acclaimed American author Khaled Hosseini knows what it's like to be a refugee. He was a teenager living in Paris, where his father worked as an Afghan diplomat, when the Soviet Union invaded his homeland on Christmas Eve 1979.

Watch Khaled's visit to meet Syrian refugees: http://rfg.ee/xqgcx

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