Books by Tamim Ansary
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review 1: Reading this book was an amazingly contradictory experience; it was both terribly depression and wonderfully uplifting. It was depressing because it told of the multiple catastrophes that Afghanistan has experienced and it was uplifting because it also told of how well Afghanista...
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review 1: The narrator was wonderful. Before this book I was clueless about Islam, Muslims, Mohammad, and the Middle East. The book was 17 hours long and a large amount of history was covered which was a little overwhelming at times. I found myself wanting to take notes but I forced mysel...
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review 1: Quite informative -- and it's a perspective we need (did you have any idea just how many inventions and discoveries came from the other side of human culture?) -- but Tamim Ansary too often bends over backward to make his narrative relatable such that he often includes obscure or...
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review 1: This book is one part history of the world, one part *detailed* history of the Arab/Muslim world. The promise of the book though is that it's a telling of the world history from the perspective of the 'Middle World', which author takes a stab at in various parts of the book, but ...