One City One Book Launch Day
Saturday, September 6

Ansary’s memoir West of Kabul, East of New York has been selected by San Francisco for its One City One Book program this year. The program will be launched with an event at the San Francisco Ferry Building from 10 a.m. to noon, followed by a city bookstores tour and a celebration from 5:30 to 6:30 in the Mission District at a venue to be named later. For information check the One City One Book website here.
 

Radio Interview
Saturday, September 6

West Coast Live with Sedge Thompson
KQED
 

Reading and Discussion
Thursday, September 11, 7 pm

Ansary reads from West of Kabul, East of New York and fields questions.

Booksmith
1644 Haight Street
San Francisco
Contact: Thomas Gladysz – 863.8688
 

An Evening of Fundraising
Friday, September 19, 7 to 10 pm

Ansary delivers an address at “Reason For Hope,” an evening devoted to raising funds for the Amin Institute in Kabul, Afghanistan, a project to help some of the roughly 2 million orphans in the country rebuild (or merely build) lives. Hosted by CSU professor Farid Senzai, the evening features a buffet dinner, a children’s program, and interviews with Kabul street children taped by Afghan filmmaker Affandy Yacoob. Ansary will speak on the past and future of Afghanistan.

Chandni Restaurant
5748 Mowry School Rd
Newark, CA 94560
Contact Shamsia Razaqi at shamsia@omeid.org
 

Reading and Conversation
Saturday, September 20 , 2 pm
San Francisco Public Library
Western Addition Branch
1550 Scott Street
San Francisco
Contact: Linda Suzuki – 355.5727
 

Reading and Conversation
Sunday, September 21, 2pm

Book Passage
1 Ferry Building
San Francisco
Contact: Kate Ferguson or Roger Pentano at 415.835.1020
 

Reading and Conversation
Wednesday September 24 at 7pm

The Excelsior branch of the San Francisco Public Library hosts an Arts & Culture Salon featuring Tamim Ansary.

Public Library
4400 Mission Street
San Francisco
Contact: Elizabeth Thacker and Lisa Dunseth – 355.2868
 

Carmel Authors and Ideas Festival
Friday-Sun, September 26-28

Ansary joins a line-up of wonderful writers including Reza Aslan, Greg Mortenson, Lolly Winston, Kemble Scott, and over 30 others at Carmel-by-the-Sea for two days of literary intensity.

Sunset Community Center Theater
Carmel, California
For information: http://www.carmelauthors.com/

 

 

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Class: “Hot Spots–Islam and the West Today”
Every Thursday, January 29 – March 5, 2009
1:30-3:30

Sponsored by the Osher Institute for Lifelong Learning, this six-week lecture series explores seven ”hot spots” in today’s interaction between the Islamic world and the West: Afghanistan, Pakistan/India, Iran, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia.  The class begins with an overview of the Islamic world over the course of history. For each “hot spot,” we will look at cultural, political, historical, and strategic factors that contribute to the situation today and to possible solutions to the conflict.

Osher Insitute/UC Berkeley
Room 150, University Hall,
2199 Addison Street
Berkeley, CA 94103
For information, contact Aileen Kim: akkim@berkeley.edu

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