Samira Ahmed once owned a golden ball. It was actually rubber with gold-colored flecks, but for the sake of storytelling, picture a gold ball, magic, one of a kind. Certainly, she liked to believe ...

Young adult author Samira Ahmed remembers her first experience with racism vividly. “I was about seven or eight years old, in the midst of the Iran Hostage Crisis,” she tells Bustle. There was quite a ...

New York Times bestselling author Samira Ahmed, AB’93, MAT’93, has been named the invited speaker for the University of Chicago's Class Day ceremony on Friday, June 3. The celebration kicks off ...

BBC presenter Samira Ahmed is preparing to give evidence on Wednesday in a dramatic legal battle in which she is demanding that her salary mirrors that of a male colleague. In the first employment ...

As editor of her high school newspaper in Batavia, Ill.—a small town about an hour west of Chicago—Samira Ahmed got used to asking tough questions. The paper was where she first thought deeply about ...

Samira Ahmed was 8 years old when the seed for her debut young-adult novel was planted. She was sitting in the backseat of her parents’ car, stuck in traffic on a day trip to Chicago, when a man in ...

The BBC has played down the potency of its own output in a legal battle with presenter Samira Ahmed, who is seeking £693,245 ($892,442) in lost earnings at an employment tribunal over equal pay. In ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. A self-described “STEM gal,” Samira Ahmed loves science, technology, ...

Author Samira Ahmed at 57th Street Books in Chicago, October 2019. Credit - Jean Lachat—University of Chicago; Courtesy Samira Ahmed As editor of her high school newspaper in Batavia, Ill.—a small ...