Three Cups of Tea Themes

Think of how much of your life is spent in school. By the time you're eighteen, you've probably spent at least seventy percent of your life in school. It may seem like too much, but how would thing...

Pakistan can be a dangerous place if you don't fit in. You're not going to fit in if you're in the wrong branch of Islam in the wrong place (Sunni in a Shiite region and vice versa) and in Three Cu...

When you think of Pakistan, you might think of busy city bazaars, deserts with massive sweeping sand dunes, and camels. Lots of camels. What you might not know about are the towering mountain range...

By the time you go to school, the building that you're studying in has probably been there a good long time, with bathrooms that have been around since the 1960s and lunch ladies who have been ther...

Bad Religion isn't just a punk rock band—some Christians think of Islam as a bad religion, and some Muslims think the same of Christianity. The amount of hatred between these two groups is ironic...

Pakistan is a little larger than Texas in area but has about nine times as many people. Pakistan is densely populated, and maybe because it's squeezed so tight, the ground itself has bunched up int...

Most of the time you need to take a few years of a foreign language to graduate high school. However, most of the time, what you learn is only the absolute basics—you don't learn all the differen...

Americans are often discouraged from traveling to certain foreign countries because of danger, and in Three Cups of Tea, Pakistan and Afghanistan are that kind of dangerous. With terrorist sects li...