Tamim Ansary: 4 books
West of Kabul, East of New York
An Afghan American Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
A passionate personal journey through two cultures in conflict
Shortly after militant Islamic terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, Tamim Ansary of San Francisco sent an e-mail to twenty friends, telling how the threatened U.S. reprisals against Afghanistan looked to him as an Afghan...
Games without Rules
The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
By the author of Destiny Disrupted: An enlightening, lively, accessible, history of Afghanistan from 1840 to today, from the Afghan point of view, that illuminates how Great Power conflicts have interrupted an ongoing, internal struggle to take form as a nation.
Five times in the last two centuries,...
Destiny Disrupted
A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
The Western narrative of world history largely omits a whole civilization. Destiny Disrupted tells the history of the world from the Islamic point of view, and restores the centrality of the Muslim perspective, ignored for a thousand years.
In Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary tells the rich...
The Invention of Yesterday
A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
A sweeping global human history that describes the separate beginnings of the world's major cultural movements--Confucianism, Islam, Judeo-Christianity and Nomadism--and the dramatic, sometimes ruinous, sometimes transformative effects of their ever closer intertwinement that is the defining feature...