Samira Ahmed, author portrait
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Samira Ahmed

Samira Ahmed was born in Bombay, India, and grew up in a small town in Illinois in a house that smelled like fried onions, cardamom, and potpourri. A graduate of the University of Chicago, she taught high school English, helped create dozens of small high schools, and fought to secure billions of additional dollars to fairly fund public schools. She's lived in Vermont, Chicago, New York City, and Kauai, where she spent a year searching for the perfect mango. Love, Hate & Other Filters is her first novel.
Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know
Love, Hate and Other Filters

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Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know
Love, Hate and Other Filters

Author’s Note: Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed

Dear Reader, This story is fiction. But it also tells the truth. All stories start with a seed and for me that seed was planted years ago when I first crossed paths with Lord Byron’s epic poem, The Giaour, along with his deeply ingrained Orientalism and sexism. In college, I took a class that centered around

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