Kites and Kite Runners

Kite Fighting is a popular sport in Afghanistan.  Take time to find out what it is and how it is done.  It is facinating and beautiful.

Afghan Fighters

http://www.csun.edu/~hfoao033/fighters3.html

Flying High: Kite Flying from the Silk Road to Roosevelt Avenue, Voices: The Journal of New York Folkdore, Spring-Summer 2005, v. 31:1-2 p.22

http://www.nyfolklore.org/pubs/voic31-1-2/kites.html

Kite Culture: How Kites are Helping rebuild Afghanistan

http://www.kitelife.com/archives/issue29/afghankites2003

Afghanistan: Artistry in the Air - Kite Flying is Taken to New Heights byGrant Podelco

http://www.rfert.org/features/2002/11/1511200219251.asp

Kiteflying: Afghanistan

Kite CultureProject

httP:subvision.net/sky//planrtkite/middle.essle-east/agtghanistam

miffhttp://subvision.net/sky/planetkite/middle-east/afghanistan/index.htm

Paper-string symbols of freedom gill afghakies by Scott Peterson

.http://www.camonitor,/2001/1203/p7s2-wosc.html

Afghan History: kite flying, kite running and kite banning  by Mir Hekmatullah Sadat June 2004

http://www.afghanmagazine.com/2004_06/articles/hsadat.shtml