Mir Tamim Ansary

Mir Tamim Ansary is an Afghan-American author and public speaker, born in Kabul in 1948. He writes about Afghan and Muslim history, best known for Destiny Disrupted, a history of the world through Islamic eyes, and West of Kabul, East of New York. His other book, The Invention of Yesterday, takes a long view of human culture across 50,000 years. Earlier, he was a columnist for the encyclopedia website Encarta.