Author Aatish Taseer, whose new book <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Return-Self-Excursions-Exile/dp/1646222792">A Return To Self: Excursions in Exile</a> comes out this week, did not meet his father, Salman Taseer, the former Governor of Punjab, Pakistan until he was 21 and their relationship was, to say the least, complicated. In 2009, he wrote a book about the experience, Stranger to History, about his journey to meet his father that was also an exploration of what it means to be a Muslim in the 21st Century. Shortly after Aatish made contact with his father, in early 2011, Governor Taseer was assassinated by his own bodyguard for pardoning a woman who had been sentenced to death for allegedly insulting the Prophet Mohammed. On this episode of Tell Me About Your Father, Aatish Taseer talks with Matt Phillp about his new book, the complicated response he continues to have to his father’s violent assassination, the value and beauty of going on a pilgrimage, what it means to identify with a nation, and how it feels to have been ejected by one.Follow this podcast on Instagram <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/tellmeaboutyourfather/">here</a>Follow Matt Phillp <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/mattphillp">here</a>Follow Erin Hosier <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/erinhosier">here</a>Follow Elizabeth Thompson <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/bizzyt">here</a> This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://tellmeaboutyourfather.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">tellmeaboutyourfather.substack.com</a>

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