West of Kabul, East of New York

Description:

"The day after Islamic terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, Tamim Ansary of San Francisco sent an anguished e-mail to twenty friends, discussing the attack from his perspective as an Afghan American. That message, spreading via the Internet, reached and touched millions of people around the world." "Now Ansary gives us West of Kabul, East of New York, an account of a life lived in two very different cultures, Islamic Afghanistan and the secular West."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Arab Americans,  Biography,  Civilization, Islamic,  Culture conflict,  Islamic Civilization,  Social conditions,  Afghan Americans,  East and west,  Islam, relations,  Islam and politics,  Afghanistan, politics and government,  September 11 terrorist attacks, 2001,  Terrorism, religious aspects

People: Tamim Ansary

Places: Afghanistan,  California,  San Francisco,  United States

Times: 20th century