The Other Side of the Sky

Farah Ahmedi
As a young girl, Farah Ahmedi stepped on a landmine on her way to school in Afghanistan. She and her mother later immigrated to the United States. Ahmedi won the Good Morning America’s Story of My Life contest in 2005 and went on to publish her memoir ''The Other Side of the Sky. ''Ahmedi went on to graduate from college. She is currenty a mother of two as well as a humanitarian, activist, and writer. "Now a college graduate..., Ahmedi is a public speaker who shares her story of loss, hope, and peace with people all over the country." (simonandschuster.com) Follow this link for a chicago tribune article on Ahmedi

Radio broadcast when Farah was 17 years old

Tamim Ansary
"Tamim Ansary is the author of the memoir West of Kabul, East of New York, co-author with Farah Ahmadi of the New York Times bestseller The Other Side of the Sky, and has been a major contributing writer to several secondary school history textbooks. Ansary is director of the San Francisco Writers Workshop. He writes for Encarta.com, the San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Alternet, Edutopia, Parade, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications" (thriftbooks.com)

"Ansary gained prominence in 2001 after he wrote a widely circulated e-mail that denounced the Taliban and warned that, although he believed that United States would need to be deployed in Afghanistan to capture or kill Osama Bin Laden, that, in the Ansary's opinion, this could start a third world war. The e-mail was a response to a call to bomb Afghanistan "into the Stone Age". " (en.wikipedia.org)

Follow this link http://mirtamimansary.com for additional information and photographs of Ansary.