This book won the 2010 Northern California book award, general nonfiction category.Ī memoir, Road Trips, Becoming an American in the vapor trail of The Sixties, recounts stories from Mir Tamim's years as part of the American ‘60s and ‘70s counterculture. Īnsary's novel, The Widow's Husband, portrays the nineteenth-century British invasion of Afghanistan from both an Afghan and a British perspective.ĭestiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes was published in spring of 2009 by PublicAffairs. This series was rebroadcast on the local affiliate of National Public Radio. In the middle of 2008 Ansary gave a series of lectures to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, associated with San Francisco State University, on the history and development of Islam. Ansary also edited and published a group of essays by young Afghans entitled, Snapshots: This Afghan American Life with funding from a 2008 grant from the Christianson Fund. West of Kabul, East of New York was San Francisco's One City One Book selection for 2008. His book West of Kabul, East of New York is a literary memoir recounting his bicultural perspective on contemporary world conflicts. The e-mail was a response to a call to bomb Afghanistan "into the Stone Age". Writer and lecturer Īnsary gained prominence in 2001 after he wrote a widely circulated e-mail that denounced the Taliban and warned that, although he believed that United States would need to be deployed in Afghanistan to capture or kill Osama Bin Laden, that, in Ansary's opinion, this could start a third world war. He attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He was previously a columnist for the encyclopedia website Encarta.Īnsary was born in Kabul and lived there until high school when he moved to the United States.
He is the author of Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes, West of Kabul, East of New York, and other books concerning Afghan and Muslim history.
Mir Tamim Ansary (born November 4, 1948, in Kabul, Afghanistan) is an Afghan-American author and public speaker.
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