![]() ![]() He runs the San Francisco Writers Workshop and is a regular columnist for Microsoft's learning site,. After 9/11, he returned to Afghanistan to see the refugee camps and to visit Kabul. ![]() When he returned to the States, he was a textbook editor for Harcourt Brace and then started writing children's books. But he persisted and went on to graduate and go to Reed College in Portland.Īfter college, he tried various lifestyles of the counterculture and soon quit his job to travel. It was culture shock in many ways, and at first he had difficulty having conversations with anyone. He discovered to his dismay that he was one of three scholarship students among a student body of children of the very rich. In 1964, Tamim got a scholarship to an exclusive private school in Colorado. Later the family moved to Lashkargah, a small town in southwestern Afghanistan, in the midst of a vast American-funded project to make the desert bloom. His father taught science and literature at Kabul University and his mother taught English at the first girls school in Afghanistan. It recounts his journeys through Islamic countries and the passion and fundamentalism he encountered-a shock from which, he says, it took him 14 years to recover.īorn in Afghanistan to an American mother and Afghani father, he grew up in Kabul. His name leapt off the shelf at the bookstore where his latest book, East of New York, West of Kabul, was featured. Tamim Ansary: Afghan American, world traveler, keen observer, and writer. ![]()
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