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Sohrab Ahmari was a teenager living under the Iranian ayatollahs when he decided that there is no God. Nearly two decades later, he would be received into the Roman Catholic Church.
In From Fire, by Water, he recounts this unlikely passage, from the strident Marxism and atheism of a youth misspent on both sides of the Atlantic to a moral and spiritual awakening prompted by the Mass. At once a young intellectual's finely crafted self-portrait and a life story at the intersection of the great ideas and events of our time, the book marks the debut of a compelling new Catholic voice.
Sohrab Ahmari
Sohrab Ahmari is the US Editor of UnHerd. Prior to that, he co-founded Compact magazine and spent nearly a decade at News Corp., as the op-ed editor of the New York Post and as a columnist and editor with the Wall Street Journal opinion pages in New York and London. In addition to those publications, his writing has appeared in the Financial Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Statesman, and The Spectator, among many others. Ahmari’s previous books include Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty—and What To Do About It and The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children.
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