
Iqbal Tamimi
I have never met Iqbal Tamimi, but she inspired me when I connected with her seven years ago.
We connected digitally then and I was amazed and delighted to get an update on her last week.
My first blog, from 2004 to 2008, was Training Tracks, published first on No Train, No Gain and later at the American Press Institute‘s website. It didn’t draw nearly the traffic or the comments that I get on this blog, but one comment stands out.
Iqbal commented on one of my posts (alas, the original post, with the comments, is not available online any more, but I wrote a subsequent post that recounted our exchange in the comments and subsequent emails). Here are some passages about Iqbal from the second blog post: (more…)