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Born of refugee parents from India into the newly created state of Pakistan, in 1952, M. Salahuddin Khan of Lake Forest, Illinois, earned a bachelors degree in aeronautics and astronautics from University of Southampton, England. He is a management consultant primarily in the areas of product development and marketing. In 2008, Khan was a Co-Executive Producer of a 12-minute short movie called The Boundary, starring Alex Siddig of Syriana, Kingdom of Heaven, and Star Trek, Deep Space Nine fame. The movie dealt with the issues of civil liberties at a U.S. border crossing in a post 9/11 world. Salahuddin has been published online and in print in such media as the Huffington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle and has made numerous radio and...more

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A STORM IN THREE TEACUPS

Today’s National Review Online carries an article by Ashley Thorne. In it, while acknowledging the importance of education in Afghanistan and Pakistan, he professes such a concern for the truth that he worries over the corruption of students educated in America on the lessons of Greg Mortenson’s Three Cups of Tea, all in the name of appeasing the Islamic world.
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Sikander
by M. Salahuddin Khan (Goodreads Author), Pam Guerrieri (Editor)
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M. Salahuddin and 1 other person liked Viki's review of The Swallows of Kabul: " Afghanistan is a human rights black hole. The book opens with an immediate innundation of Afghan Big Brother at his worst. People crowd into an arena to witness the stoning of a woman who has sinned against society. Swallows covers two couples' re... " Read more of this review »
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M. Salahuddin and 1 other person liked Kay's review of Swallows of Kabul: " Kabul, "the old sorceress," is the main character of this book, much as Egdon Heath is in a Thomas Hardy novel. The life paths of six Afghanis cross and re-cross there, their struggle to hold to the moral and beautiful ground into powder by the Ru... " Read more of this review »
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M. Salahuddin and 1 other person liked Seth Thomson's review of Sikander: " I really enjoyed this book. The main character, Sikander, represents the best of us, and the setting is alien and familiar at the same time. This book is long, but worth the time investment. "
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M. Salahuddin and 2 other people liked Nicki's review of Sikander: " I won this through the Goodreads First Reads program. And whew, where do I start? This is an amazing book, spanning 21 years in the life of Sikander, a Pakistani man who fights against the Soviets in Afghanistan, and later against corporate Americ... " Read more of this review »
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