6/1/2023 0 Comments Samira ahmed author![]() ![]() ![]() That memory is where the seed of her debut novel Love, Hate, and Other Filters originated. And she’s not even close to the only child to experience such horror. “That scene is perfectly etched in my memory,” she says. Many memories from Ahmed’s childhood have faded over the years, but not this one. The man in the passenger seat made eye contact with me, rolled down his window and pointed his finger at me - a child, too puzzled to look away - and yelled with a guttural ferocity, “Go home, you goddamned f*cking Iranian.” “One day that summer, inching forward in a traffic jam, my parents chatting in the front seat, I rolled down my window as a car came even with ours - two adult men sat in the front seat. There was quite a bit of anti-Muslim sentiment in America at the time, and the Ahmeds were trying to blend in as much as possible. “I was about seven or eight years old, in the midst of the Iran Hostage Crisis,” she tells Bustle. Young adult author Samira Ahmed remembers her first experience with racism vividly. ![]()
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