Tamim Ansary

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Mir Tamim Ansary (born November 4, 1948 in Kabul ) is an Afghan - American writer and historian .

Tamim Ansary, 2008

Life

Tamim Ansary's Afghan father was a lecturer at Kabul University , and his American mother taught English at the first girls' school in Afghanistan. Ansary moved to the United States in 1964 on a scholarship to attend a high school in Colorado . In 1972 he graduated from Reed College in Portland, Oregon . He then worked as an editor of an alternative weekly newspaper and as an author of his own literary experiments, later as an editor in a publishing house for school books. Ansary also wrote non-fiction books for children, as well as a. a a volume of memoirs and a historical novel. He worked as a writer for Microsoft Encarta and edited an anthology of young Afghan-American authors.

An email first sent to friends brought Ansary undreamt-of fame: two days after the attacks of September 11, 2001 , he responded to a comment by a radio presenter that it was now a matter of “bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age”: Ansary noted it with sad irony The Taliban had long since brought about the situation . The Taliban, however, are not to be equated with the Afghan population, rather they hold them in a kind of hostage from which they must be freed. Above all, however, Afghanistan must be helped to rebuild infrastructure and civil society .

In 2010 his book The Unknown Middle of the World was published in German : Global history from an Islamic point of view , in which Ansary attempts to contrast the Eurocentric model of history with an alternative.

Tamim Ansary lives in San Francisco and is active as a lecturer and radio commentator in addition to his writing work.

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 point of view . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-593-38837-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information according to www.mirtamimansary.com/biography/
  2. ↑ Description on the publisher's website
personal data
SURNAME Ansary, Tamim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ansary, Mir Tamim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Afghan writer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Kabul