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Tamim Ansary

Author, lecturer and writing teacher

Tamim Ansary wrote West of Kabul, East of New York, San Francisco’s “One City One Book” selection for 2008, a memoir of a bi-cultural life straddling Afghanistan and America. His bestselling Destiny Disrupted, A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes has been translated into 10 languages. His memoir, Road Trips, Becoming an American in the vapor trail of The Sixties, is about dropping out of a society he wasn’t a part of. Ansary lives in San Francisco, where he teaches memoir writing workshops, delivers lectures about history, and writes about politics, culture, philosophy, history, the social impact of technology and other topics.

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