Project Interfaith Presents:

“An Afghan-American Odyssey: My Bi-Cultural Life in a Post 9-11 World”

A Community Conversation with author Tamim Ansary.

Thursday, April 7, 2011, 7:00 p.m.
UNO Thompson Center
6705 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE 68132

$10 non-students, $5 for students with valid student IDs

Meet Tamim Ansary, Afghan-American, author, lecturer and teacher, for a community conversation "An Afghan-American Odyssey: My Bi-Cultural Life in a Post 9-11 World." Ansary will share his story of a bi-cultural life: having been born in Afghanistan, studied in the United States and now traveling back and forth between the two as an adult. Ansary will discuss his more recent travels to Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban, lessons he has learned from being of both cultures, and the differentiating world-views between Afghans and Americans.

Space is limited and pre-registration is strongly encouraged.

Tamim Ansary, author, lecturer, and teacher, was born and raised in Afghanistan and has lived in the United States since 1964. He writes about Islam, politics, democracy, history, education, philosophy, the social impact of technology, sports, movies, and other topics as they catch his fancy. His columns and analyses can be found at his blogsite www.mirtamimansary.com. Ansary’s books include a historical novel (The Widow’s Husband) a memoir (West of Kabul, East of New York) and Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes, which won the 2010 Northern California Book Award for general nonfiction. Ansary also runs the San Francisco Writers Workshop and teaches sporadically through the Osher Institute of Lifelong Learning at San Francisco State and at U.C. Berkeley. Recently, Ansary edited and published Snapshots: This Afghan American Life, an anthology of work by 15 young Afghan-Americans, whom he mentored as writers. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Deborah and his cat Raoul.

This program is part of Project Interfaith’s Community Conversations annual speaker series.

Co-sponsored by:

Project Interfaith, Nebraska Humanities Council, Nebraska Cultural Endowment, Creighton University Muslim Students Association, Fr. Henry W. Casper Professorship in History at Creighton University, UNO Center for Afghanistan Studies, UNO Islamic Studies Program