Tamim Ansary

Tamim Ansary reads "The Rebel Leader," a chapter from his memoir West of Kabul, East of New York. (Running Time: 27:28)

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Tamim Ansary writes and lectures about Afghanistan, Islamic history, democracy, schooling and learning, fiction and the writing process. He also directs the San Francisco Writers Workshop, the oldest continuous free writers workshop in America and the hub of a growing community of Bay Area writers.