Tamim Ansary
Mir Tamim Ansary (* November 4, 1948 in Kabul ) is an Afghan- American writer and historian.
Life
Tamim Ansarys Afghan father was a lecturer at Kabul University, his American mother taught English at the first school for girls in Afghanistan. With a scholarship to attend a high school in Colorado Ansary moved in 1964 to the USA. In 1972 he graduated from Reed College in Portland (Oregon ) from. He then worked as an editor of an alternative weekly newspaper and as an author 's own literary attempts, later as an editor in a publishing house for textbooks. Ansary also wrote non-fiction books for children, among other things, also a memoir and a historical novel. He worked as a writer for Microsoft's Encarta site and published an anthology of young Afghan- American authors.
An initially sent to friends e -mail brought Ansary unexpected notoriety: Two days after the attacks of September 11, 2001, he responded to a comment from a radio presenter, it now was, " zurückzubomben in the Stone Age" Afghanistan: With sad irony noticed Ansary, this state would have long ago brought about the Taliban. The Taliban, however, are not to be equated with the Afghan population, they held rather in a kind of hostage, from which it applies to free them. But above all, Afghanistan had to be helped in the reconstruction of infrastructure and civil society.
Was released in 2010 on German his book The unknown center of the world: Global History from an Islamic perspective, in the Ansary attempts to engage in, the Euro -centric model of history to face an alternative.
Tamim Ansary lives in San Francisco and is active in addition to his literary work as a lecturer and radio commentator.
Works
- West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story (2003)
- Snapshots: This Afghan American Life (ed., with Yalda Asmatey, 2008)
- The Widow's Husband ( novel, 2009)
- Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes ( 2009) German: The unknown center of the world: Global History from an Islamic perspective (Campus, 2010)