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Mohsin Hamid
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Mohsin Hamid is an acclaimed British Pakistani author known for creative fiction and commentary that address contemporary global issues. His most recent novel, The Last White Man (2022), explores the cultural, social, and political dynamics of race. Exit West (2017), about migration and the refugee experience, received the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. His book The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), an exploration of issues of religion, politics, and identity in a globalizing world, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and later adapted into a successful film. Hamid’s engagement with themes of political turmoil, cultural displacement, and shifting individual and collective identities informs his influential essays on contemporary affairs in leading outlets including the Guardian, New York Times, and Paris Review. Hamid is a Georgetown Global Dialogues (GGD) fellow.