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Khaled Hosseini ’88

1. How did you end up at Santa Clara University?

Like most people, I didn’t choose my school based solely on one reason. I knew that SCU offered a topnotch education, and I had already been taught during fifth and sixth grade by Jesuits back home in Afghanistan, so I knew a little bit about the Jesuits education philosophy and I came to Santa Clara knowing that my education would be interactive, flexible, and adaptable. Plus, I had formed roots in the bay area by then and I loved northern California, loved living here with my family and so that was an additional convenience that couldn’t be overlooked.

2. Who was your favorite professor and why?

I had many wonderful professors and I carry fond memories of them. But perhaps my most memorable time was with Dr. William Parent, who taught philosophy. I took several courses with Dr. Parent and thoroughly enjoyed his Socratic, interactive method of teaching. He always brought humor and lightheartedness into our discussions and found ways of applying real life examples to theories learned in class and question

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Courses

OSUN Theme: Liberal Arts and Sciences

A Thousand Splendid Suns and the Contemporary Afghan Woman's Story. This course is at full capacity and is no longer accepting registrations.

Term: September 23, 2024 – December 4, 2024
Level: 200-Level
Day/Time: Monday; Wednesday 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM EDT
Instructor: Lucy Ferriss, Bard College
Students will read Khaled Hosseini’s novel 1000 Splendid Sunsboth as a literary exemplar and as a subject of postcolonial critique. We will pay particular attention to the dual point of view in the novel; to Hosseini’s perspective as a member of the Afghan diaspora; and to the fluid interpretations of history embedded in novels tied to controversial events. By the end of class, students will have written two stories of their own, one from a perspective close to their own, and one from a perspective close to their mother’s.
Credits: 3 US / 6 ECTS

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Khaled Hosseini, M.D.

Your English is virtually unaccented and perfectly fluent, and you write in English. Where did that fluency come from?

Khaled Hosseini: I think part of it is youth. Farsi was my first language. I learned French when I was eleven, and we lived in France for about four years, so that became my second language. And then we moved to the States, and I was 15 at that time, so I began to pick up English. Actually, I picked up English pretty quickly, probably within a year I was pretty fluent. And part of it is that you’re still very pliable mentally at 14, 15 years old. You still are not fully rooted in that, so you still have that ability to absorb things in a kind of a childlike way. And so I picked up the language pretty quickly. And I think part of it also is that I always had kind of an ease with foreign languages. I always had an ear for it and seemed to pick it up more quickly than some of my friends and fellow students. So I think it was a combination of both things.

As a teenager in America, you really have to learn the idiom, you have to learn