Tamim Ansary
All Books By Tamim Ansary
Destiny Disrupted
- By: Tamim Ansary
- Narrator: Tamim Ansary
- Length: 17 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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4.39(1658 ratings)
With storytelling brio and evenhanded sympathy to all sides of the story, Ansary clarifies how the Muslim world views the history of the world and what they therefore make of our own version of events.
Until about 1800, the West and the Islamic realm were like two adjacent, parallel universes, each assuming itself to be the center of the world while ignoring the other. As Europeans colonized the globe, the two world histories intersected, and the Western narrative drove the other one under. The West hardly noticed, but the Islamic world found the encounter profoundly disrupting.
By revealing that parallel “other” narrative to the chapter we are living today, this book will help us to make sense of today’s world conflicts. Ansary traces the history of the Muslim world from pre-Mohammedan days through 9/11, introducing the people, events, and key turning points, not only in terms of what happened but also in terms of how those events were understood and interpreted.
... Read moreGames without Rules
- By: Tamim Ansary
- Narrator: Tamim Ansary
- Length: 14 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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4.37(1129 ratings)
Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real, but it sits atop an older struggle between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan–a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam.
Now, Tamim Ansary draws on his Afghan background, Muslim roots, and Western and Afghan sources to explain history from the inside out and illuminate the long, internal struggle that the outside world has never fully understood. It is the story of a nation struggling to take form, a nation undermined by its own demons while, every forty to sixty years, a great power crashes in and disrupts whatever progress has been made. Told in conversational, storytelling style and focusing on key events and personalities, Games without Rules provides revelatory insight into a country at the center of political debate.
... Read moreThe Invention of Yesterday
- By: Tamim Ansary
- Narrator: Tamim Ansary
- Length: 17 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.27(557 ratings)
West of Kabul, East of New York
- By: Tamim Ansary
- Narrator: Tamim Ansary
- Length: 8 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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3.88(1403 ratings)
The day after the World Trade Center was destroyed, Tamim Ansary sent an anguished e-mail to twenty friends discussing the attack from his perspective as an Afghan American. The message reached millions.
Born to an Afghan father and American mother, Ansary grew up in the intimate world of Afghan family life. When he emigrated to San Francisco, he believed he’d left Afghan culture behind forever. But at the height of the Iranian Revolution, he took a harrowing journey through the Islamic world to rediscover his roots. In the years that followed, he struggled to unite his divided self and to find a place in his imagination where his Afghan and American identities might meet.
Here in his own words is one man’s personal journey through two cultures in conflict.
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