Border Crossings

Mohammad Chowdhury
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My Journey as an Outsider

Whether negotiating the mind-games of border security services or performing ablutions in a London bathroom, Mohammad Chowdhury’s life travelling the world brings daily challenges.

Border Crossings is a thrilling ride from the city of minarets to the heights of picture-perfect skyscrapers. A journey of finding one’s own identity, it is the story of a British born, Bangladeshi man of Muslim faith, trying to reconcile his western and eastern identities and the inconsistencies between the two.

Hustling his way through days and nights negotiating one cultural micro-adjustment after another, Chowdhury’s story reflects our own struggles to find a place where we truly belong.

‘What a journey this is! From west to east, from insider to outsider, from the mundane to the transcendent,Border Crossings spans remarkable physical, cultural and spiritual terrain, and beautifully distills the push and pull of a life lived between worlds. These are the snapshots of a life so familiar, yet so different from my own— the kind of book I might have written if only my life had been much more interesting.’ — Waleed Aly

ISBN: 9781742238067 | Published: 1 July 2023 | Trade paperback | 368 pages
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