![]() ![]() 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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