Javed Amir

Author, editor, globetrotter Javed Amir is a retired diplomat and former Washington Bureau chief of The Frontier Post. His five literary works are The Mask (short stories and poems), Writing Across Boundaries (Essays on multiculturalism and Translations), Modern Soap (Novel), Thought Never Dies (Essays, Book Reviews and Nostalgia) and A Wanderer between the Worlds (Literary travels 1970-2020).

Since 1992 a slew of his essays and articles on a multitude of subjects have appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, India Abroad, Dawn, The Friday Times, Nation, and The Frontier Post among others. He has appeared on CSPAN dozens of times participating at Book Festivals and Politics and Prose, debating with politicians and delivering lectures at Universities as well as at The Library of Congress.

Amir has lived in Maryland in suburban Washington with his wife Clemencia Amir since 1978. They have three children and four grandchildren.