Samina Ali is the author of Madras on Rainy Days, which won the French Prix Premier Roman Etranger Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award in Fiction. She is also a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. She is a public speaker, and her Tedx talk, "What the Qur'an Really Says About the Hijab," currently has over 8 million views. Her writing has been featured in various outlets, from national NPR to The Economist.
This biography was last updated on 03/04/2025.
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