Emran Mian is a British

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 Pakistan

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i author. He also publishes under the pseudonym Kamran Nazeer. Emran was born in Glasgow

Glasgow

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. He lived in New York

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, Jeddah

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 and Islamabad

Islamabad

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 before returning to Glasgow where he studied Law. Deciding not to become a lawyer, he then went to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

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 for his PhD and finally joined the British civil service

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 as a policy adviser in Whitehall

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. His first book entitled Send In the Idiots: Stories From the Other Side of Autism was published in March 2006 under his penname. He is also a frequent contributor to Prospect Magazine.

Selected works

• Send In the Idiots: Stories From the Other Side of Autism, ISBN 1-58234-619-4
• The Curious Case of Exclusionary Reasons, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Volume XV, Number 1 (January 2002) pp. 99–124
• Mandarin intellectuals, Prospect Magazine, (July 2006)