Tamim Ansary: 4 books

Book cover of West of Kabul, East of New York

West of Kabul, East of New York

An Afghan American Story

by Tamim Ansary
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...
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Games without Rules

The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan

by Tamim Ansary
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,...
Book cover of Destiny Disrupted

Destiny Disrupted

A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

by Tamim Ansary
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...
Book cover of The Invention of Yesterday

The Invention of Yesterday

A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection

by Tamim Ansary
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...
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