West of Kabul, East of New York
Subtitle: an Afghan American story
By: Tamim Ansary
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Ansary, Tamim; Arab Americans -- California -- San Francisco -- Biography; Civilization, Islamic; Culture conflict -- United States; Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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.