Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes (64 page)

Tamim Ansary
is the author of the memoir
West of Kabul, East of New York
and coauthor with Afghan land mine victim Farah Ahmadi of the
New York Times
bestseller
The Other Side of the Sky
. He has been a major contributing writer to several secondary school history textbooks. He writes a monthly column for Encarta.com and has published essays and commentary in the
San Francisco Chronicle
,
Salon
,
Alternet
, TomPaine.com,
Edutopia
,
Parade
,
L.A. Times
, and elsewhere. Ansary, director of the San Francisco Writers Workshop, lives in San Francisco.

Copyright © 2009 by Tamim Ansary

 

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