Fleeing Afghanistan, Stranding in America: The Life of an Interpreter’’s Family

Haji Razmi was born in Kandahar- Afghanistan. He worked as a diplomat at the United Nations from 1987 to 1991. He went to the Law School of Kabul University, and the Institute of Diplomacy at the Afghan Foreign Ministry. He received the certificates of attendance in the full annual sessions of The Hague Academy of International Law and the UN Geneva Commission of International Conventions. He taught Pashto language at Cal State- Eastbay and Stanford universities. He is the author of Afghans Don’t Cry- a collection of short stories, The Alliance of Heroes, a novel, and two other novels written in his native languages of Pashto and Dari reflecting mostly on the identity problem of the Afghan diaspora who left their homeland after the Soviet invasion in 1979 as well as the recent historic upheavals of that country, where the great world powers, the former Soviet Union and the United States of America ventured but yet stopped short of knowing the core of the nation’s moral, cultural, social and political nuts and bolts.