CHAO: So, I was wondering if you could tell me a little bit about your background. When did you first come across this practice of bacha posh? HASHIMI: So, it's interesting -- when you grow up, within ...

In the case of Hashimi's book the person in question is Sitara Zamani, the daughter of the chief advisor to Sardar Daoud, president of Afghanistan before the Soviet invasion. Sitara's life is one of ...

Afghanistan is a bleak place to be female. Westerners know some of the reasons why: Men have the power to control the lives of their wives and daughters, sometimes cruelly. Without a husband or a ...

For most of us, it is difficult to imagine life in a country very different from ours. In her literary debut, “The Pearl That Broke Its Shell,” Afghan-American author Nadia Hashimi illuminates the ...

Nadia Hashimi,a pediatrician from Potomac, Md., became a novelist almost as an afterthought. She had already plotted out her life’s plan as a doctor when, in 2009, she and her husband, Amin Amini, a ...

Nadia Hashimi is a good storyteller. In her first three novels, she tells of life in Afghanistan as people live according to ancient traditions, affecting life in ways American readers can hardly ...

When Dr. Nadia Hashimi was a seventh-grader in Ramsey, N.J., she and a friend convinced the local board of education to ban Styrofoam from school cafeterias. It taught her an early lesson in the art ...

The tale of an Afghan family, which tries to navigate its life in America, forms the plot of Nadia Hashimi's latest book, Spilled Ink. The writer aims to capture the journey of two teenagers, Yalda ...

Nadia Hashimi’s new novel, “Sparks Like Stars,” begins in the spring of 1978, as a coup to overthrow the sitting Afghan president, Daoud Khan, reaches its boiling point within the palace of Kabul.

On the C-SPAN Networks: Nadia Hashimi M.D. was a U.S. Representative Candidate with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2018 Rally. To mark the one-year anniversary of ...

Q: What do you see as the most pressing issue facing rural Western Maryland at this time, and what will you do on the federal level to address it? A: Western Maryland’s faltering economy has ...