Mir Tamim Ansary
b. 1948 · 84 books
Biography
Tamim Ansary was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and came to the United States as a junior in high school. Culture and cultural perspective have been among his lifelong preoccupations. His new book, The Invention of Yesterday, looks at world history as the story of ever-increasing human interconnectedness: history from the perspective of the emerging global "we".
Ansary has also written a history of the world through Islamic eyes, a history of Afghanistan from an insider's point of view, a literary memoir about straddling a cultural fault line in the world (Islam and the West), a historical novel set against the background of the First Anglo-Afghan war, and some 30 nonfiction books for children. In Road Trips, he tells the story of morphing from an Afghan into an American just as the sixties were giving way to the seventies.
His Destiny Disrupted won the Northern California Book Award for nonfiction in 2009, and his first memoir West of Kabul, East of New York was selected as a One City One Book pick by both San Francisco and Waco, Texas. In 2001, an email he sent to 20 friends reputedly became the first viral phenomenon of the Internet Age, reaching tens of millions around the world within days.
Ansary has also written a history of the world through Islamic eyes, a history of Afghanistan from an insider's point of view, a literary memoir about straddling a cultural fault line in the world (Islam and the West), a historical novel set against the background of the First Anglo-Afghan war, and some 30 nonfiction books for children. In Road Trips, he tells the story of morphing from an Afghan into an American just as the sixties were giving way to the seventies.
His Destiny Disrupted won the Northern California Book Award for nonfiction in 2009, and his first memoir West of Kabul, East of New York was selected as a One City One Book pick by both San Francisco and Waco, Texas. In 2001, an email he sent to 20 friends reputedly became the first viral phenomenon of the Internet Age, reaching tens of millions around the world within days.
Books by Mir Tamim Ansary
The Invention of Yesterday
Road Trips, Becoming an American in the vapor trail of The Sixties
Games Without Rules
Isurāmu kara mita "sekaishi"
Isurāmu kara mita "sekaishi"
Die unbekannte Mitte der Welt
El Día de los Presidentes
The widow's husband
El Día de las Elecciones
El Día de las Elecciones
El Día de los Veteranos
Election Day (Holiday Historie)
The story of my life : an Afghan girl on the other side of the sky
Amazing Creatures (Just Imagine)
Legendary Creatures (Just Imagine)
All around California
Dia de Accion de Gracias (Hist
Dia de Accion de Gracias (Historias de Fiestas (Holiday Histories))
Dia de Independencia (Historia
Dia de Independencia (Historias de Fiestas (Holiday Histories))
Dia de Los Caidos (Historias d
Dia de Los Caidos (Historias de Fiestas (Holiday Histories))
Dia de Los Presidentes (Histor
Dia de Los Presidentes (Historias de Fiestas (Holiday Histories))
El Dia de la Independencia
Kabul - New York
People of California
All Around California: Regions and Resources (State Studies: California)
Arbor Day (Holiday Histories)
Dia De Independencia/Independe
Dia De Independencia/Independence Day (Historias De Fiestas)
Dia De Los Caidos/Memorial Day
Dia De Los Caidos/Memorial Day (Historias De Fiestas)
Dia De Los Presidentes/Preside
Dia De Los Presidentes/Presidents' Day (Historias De Fiestas)
Dia De Martin Luther King Jr./
Dia De Martin Luther King Jr./Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Historias De Fiestas)
El Dia De Accion De Gracias (H
El Dia De Accion De Gracias (Historias De Fiestas)
Matter (Science All Around Me)
Matter (Science All Around Me)
California Indians (Native Americans)
Columbus Day (Holiday Histories)
Eastern Woodlands Indians
Eastern Woodlands Indians (Native Americans)
Election Day (Holiday Histories)
Flag Day (Holiday Histories)
Great Basin Indians
Great Basin Indians (Native Americans)
Independence Day (Holiday Histories)
Memorial Day (Holiday Histories)
Native Americans Prepack
Native Americans Prepack
Northwest Coast Indians (Native Americans)
Plains Indians
Plains Indians (Native Americans)
Southeast Indians
Southeast Indians (Native Americans)
Southwest Indians (Native Americans)
Subarctic Indians
Subarctic Indians
Thanksgiving Day (Holiday Histories)
Veterans Day (Holiday Histories)
Arctic Peoples (Native Americans)
California Indians (Ansary, Mir Tamim. Native Americans.)
Case of the Missing Millie
Eastern Woodlands Indians (Ansary, Mir Tamim. Native Americans.)
Labor Day (Holiday Histories)
Plains Indians (Ansary, Mir Tamim. Native Americans.)
Plateau Indians (Ansary, Mir Tamim. Native Americans.)
Plateau Indians (Native Americans)
Presidents' Day (Holiday Histories)
Runaway Spaceship
Score Booster Handbook for Reading & Language Arts (for Children Ages 9-12)
Score Booster Practice Guide One for Reading and Language Arts
Score Booster Practice Guide Three for Reading and Language Arts
Score Booster Practice Guide Two for Reading and Language Arts
Subarctic Indians (Ansary, Mir Tamim. Native Americans.)
Subarctic Indians (Native Americans)
That's Some Dog!
Arctic Peoples (Ansary, Mir Tamim. Native Americans.)
Great Basin Indians (Ansary, Mir Tamim. Native Americans.)
Northwest Coast Indians (Ansary, Mir Tamim. Native Americans.)
Southeast Indians (Ansary, Mir Tamim. Native Americans.)
Southwest Indians (Ansary, Mir Tamim. Native Americans.)
Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Holiday Histories (Hfl).)
Memorial Day (Holiday Histories (Hfl).)
Presidents' Day (Holiday Histories (Hfl).)
Unbelieveable beasts
Unbelieveable beasts
Veterans Day (Holiday Histories (Hfl).)
Carmen's Card (Caught Reading , No 3)
Caught Reading the Fourth Time (Caught Reading)
Caught Reading the Seventh Time (Caught Reading)
Caught Reading the Sixth Time (Caught Reading)
Caught Reading the Third Time (Caught Reading)
Spiders from Outer Space (Caught Reading , No 4)
The Lost Boy (Caught Reading , No 7)
The Sea House (Caught Reading , No 6)