Contact: eteraz at gmail dot com or Facebook Profile
Bio:
Ali Eteraz, 27, is an author and essayist. His work has appeared in numerous periodicals. His first book, entitled Children of Dust, will be available in 2009.
For the next few months he’s serving as a columnist for The News International, which is part of Jang, Pakistan’s largest news consortium.
He’s also a regular contributor to Jewcy, a politics and culture magazine; Huffington Post; and Guardian’s Comment is Free where he wrote a seven part series on Islamic reform.
Until recently he was a prolific blogger. His work was referenced by Andrew Sullivan, Juan Cole, NYTimes Opinionator, Germany’s Die Zeit, Slate, Salon, MSNBC, CBS and Guardian, among others.
In November of 2006, he founded Eteraz.Org: States of Islam, an interactive web portal dedicated to mobilizing Muslims worldwide on taking real world action on important social justice causes. The website will be relaunched after a period of fundraising
The late philosopher Richard Rorty described his writings as “impressive.”
Prior to becoming a full-time writer, he tried his hand with corporate litigation in New York, taking on multi-national corporations in corporate fraud and monopolization matters. During law school he worked on litigation on behalf of victims of torture at Abu Ghraib.
Places he has lived include Pakistan, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and numerous American states. He currently lives in Las Vegas and near the water on the East Coast.