Tamim Ansary

Tamim Ansary was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1948 and grew up there, before moving to the United States as a high school student. He finished school at the Colorado Rocky Mountain School and then attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He became a writer and was for a time a columnist for the Encarta encyclopedia website. He became widely known in 2001, when an e-mail he wrote denouncing the Taliban and answering calls to bomb Afghanistan was circulated widely. His memoir West of Kabul, East of New York describes growing up between two cultures, and in 2008 it was San Francisco's One City One Book selection. Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes (2009) tells world history as it looked from the Muslim world and won a Northern California Book Award. He also wrote Games Without Rules (2012), a history of Afghanistan and The Invention of Yesterday (2019). For over two decades he moderated the San Francisco Writers Workshop. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and has two daughters.

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Faith: Faith not well documented; he writes on Afghan and Muslim history. Source: Wikipedia