Born: Unknown, India
Died: NA
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA
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Samira Ahmed is the author of “Love, Hate & Other Filters,” “Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know” and “Internment.” She was born in Bombay, India, and has lived in New York, Chicago and Kauai, where she spent a year searching for the perfect mango. Ahmed’s featured book at the 2022 National Book Festival is “Hollow Fires,” a novel that follows Safiya Mirza in a murder mystery that tackles questions of Islamophobia, hate crimes and misinformation.