Suleman Ahmer’s Books

The Embattled Innocence is Suleman Ahmer’s recollection of experiences as a relief worker in Bosnia, Chechnya, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan. Profoundly touching, deeply reflective, and intensely poignant at times, the essays bring to the fore the human experiences of suffering and surviving through devastating periods of history oft overlooked by distant observers. In his work, Ahmer does not only recount his experiences but assesses the hidden collateral damage of wars that can never be remedied. Ahmer’s essays force the reader to examine their own conscience in reacting to the tragedy of war. He coaxes alive the ‘human’ part of a generally ‘desensitized’ global morality. ‘The Embattled Innocence’ packs an overwhelming dose of realization that it is by crippling the innocence and fraility of life in wars that humans in effect weaken their own generations to come.

‘Inversions: Life Lessons of a Scientist Who Quit Research for War Relief’ is a collection of Suleman Ahmer’s judicious reflections on life as a material scientist, swimming instructor, builder and manager of hospitals in war zones, an inmate of concentration camps and prisons, a university lecturer, life coach, mountain trekker, business consultant, and a father of eleven kids. The hues of humanity that he has experienced through his interaction with people from multiple global zones have offered him a percipient sagacity that he now shares as a collection in ‘Inversions’. As irrefutably admitted by avid readers across the world, it is always the sound of personal experience soldered with compassion and first-hand knowledge that leaves the most profound, indelible, and life-changing impact on the mind. ‘Inversions: Life Lessons of a Scientist Who Quit Research for War Relief’ is undoubtedly one of those books.

As an award-winning author, Suleman Ahmer’s articles on geopolitics have been featured in prestigious magazines. He has spoken at over 40 US universities, including Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught at the Lahore University of Management Sciences and the Karachi School of Business and Leadership. Ahmer is the founder of Timelenders, a management consultancy, and The Mostar Institute, a life coaching firm. Both companies help individuals and organizations develop powerful purposes and visions. He has served hundreds of clients, including Etisal, Bayer, Siemens, The Indus Hospital, Amreli Steels, and the Pakistan Army. His war relief with a Chicago based not-for-profit organization spans six war zones including Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Chechnya, Croatia, and Tajikistan. He has published his experiences in a book titled ‘The Embattled Innocence’, also available through Amazon. As a material scientist, Ahmer’s research on semiconductors with the US Air Force and the US Navy has been published. He graduated from the University of Nebraska with Bachelor in electrical engineering and psychology.

“Conversions” is a compilation of Suleman Ahmer’s life lessons and reflections and a sequel to “Inversions,” published in November 2021. His experiences span 32 countries, including six war zones, heavily influenced the content of this book and are expanded in the foreword of Inversions. He has survived two concentration camps in Bosnia, a death sentence, an unlawful arrest and expulsion from Croatia, imprisonment at the hands of General Dostum’s militia in Afghanistan, a divorce, an illegal abduction and imprisonment of a girl that he wanted to marry; witnessing the siege and bombing of Kandahar and its eventual fall; and the list goes on.

Instead of complaining, he learned lessons from every suffering in his life and collected them as Inversions and Conversions, respectively. We hope these lessons impact your life for the better. By sharing these life lessons and reflections, Suleman Ahmer simply wants his readers to have a vision because, in his own words, “Life without vision is a journey without destination.”