Tamim Ansary

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Mir Tamim Ansary (b. November 4, 1948, in Kabul, Afghanistan) is an Afghan American author and speaker. He is the author of West of Kabul, East of New York, a book published shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Ansary was born in Afghanistan and lived there until high school, when he won a scholarship to an American boarding school, Colorado Rocky Mountain School. He later attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Ansary gained prominence in 2001, after he penned a widely circulated e-mail that denounced the Taliban and called on the U.S. to bring positive political change to Afghanistan (see link below). Ansary was compelled to write the e-mail in response to a call to bomb Afghanistan "into the Stone Age." West of Kabul, East of New York is a literary memoir that recounts his bicultural perspective on current world conflicts.

Tamim Ansary lives in San Francisco with his wife. They have two daughters.

Email of Tamim Ansary after the 11th September: http://tcotrel.tripod.com/afghanletter.html