Destiny Disrupted

Tamim Ansary is the author of the memoir W't-st of Kabul,
East of New York and coauthor with Afghan land mine vic-
tim Farah Ahmadi of the New York Times bestseller The
Other Side of the Sky. He has been a major contributing
writer to several secondary school history textbooks. He
writes a monthly column for Encarta.com and has published
essays and commentary in the San Francisco Chronicle, Salon,
Alternet, TomPaine.com, Edutopia, Parade, L.A. Times, and
elsewhere. Ansary, director of the San Francisco Writers
Workshop, lives in San Francisco.