On June 17, The Asia Foundation will honor His Excellency U Thura Shwe Mann, speaker of the lower house of Myanmar’s parliament, at Foundation headquarters for a special breakfast hosted by President 
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Traditional Afghan Tales Return Home
September 7, 2011
I was in my teens in England when I first heard the Afghan author and educator Idries Shah telling tales to his children, family, and friends. He had collected hundreds of these traditional stories from oral and manuscript sources in and around Afghanistan.
Topics: Books for Asia | Education | International Literacy Day | Literacy
Countries: Afghanistan