Nemat Sadat is the author of the debut novel The Carpet Weaver, which was published by Penguin Random House India in June 2019. Sadat’s debut opened to wide critical acclaim in the Indian national press and was India’s most written about debut fiction last year. Sadat was also profiled in many publications such as Grazia India, The Sunday Guardian, and Vogue India.
Sadat is the first native from Afghanistan to publicly come out as gay and campaign for LGBTQIA rights in Muslim communities worldwide. He was interviewed by CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and many other journalists after the Orlando massacre.
While teaching at the American University of Afghanistan, Sadat secretly mobilized a gay movement off-campus but was then persecuted by the Afghan authorities and deemed a national security threat for allegedly subverting Islam. Sadat has previously worked as a journalist at the UN Chronicle, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS, and ABC News Nightline, and has earned six university degrees, including graduate degrees from Harvard, Columbia, and Oxford. He is working on his second novel, Keeping Up With The Hepburns, while pursuing a master’s degree in writing at Johns Hopkins University.
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