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Tamim Ansary

Straddling a Fault Line Between Islam and the West

Date of Review:

04/26/2002

Published Work:

West of Kabul, East of New York

Reviewer:

Richard Eder

Source:

The New York Times

Review Excerpt:

In the weeks after Sept. 11, when the television screens were filled with the certainties and chiseled uncertainties of the talking heads — invariably in upper case — a round-featured and bespectacled head would occasionally pop up. It did not so much talk as question and remember: in lower case. For

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