Both said they attended for one reason: “Khaled Hosseini.” Like many other student attendees, Ghena Alhanaee and Sarah Alsaif, both masters students in energy resources engineering, learned about the event through email. Its focal point, however, was the conversation between Hosseini, author of three international bestsellers (“The Kite-Runner,” “A Thousand Splendid Suns ” and “And the Mountains Echoed ”) and Paul Costello, chief communications officer for the School of Medicine. The symposium featured numerous student performances – dance, spoken word, piano and opera – and artwork. In her opening remarks for the event, Professor of Surgery Rebecca Smith-Coggins emphasized the need for “creativity” in order to “see the world anew,” especially in the field of medicine. On Wednesday evening, Khaled Hosseini, author of “The Kite Runner ,” spoke at Stanford as part of the School of Medicine’s “Medicine and the Muse” renewal-themed symposium.
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