Afzal Shahid grew up in Karachi, Pakistan. He has a post-graduate degree in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering from Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada. From his childhood, writing was always Afzal's weakness, so his mother always gave him some writing tasks such as writing a paragraph on a heart or chair.Driven by a constant love for his religion i.e. Islam, Afzal started writing on religious reminders to his subscribers through email. Positive feedback encouraged Afzal to write a book.Afzal realized that the mainstream media had hypnotized the people of the West against Islam. He decided that in his debut work, The Conversation, he will do his best in dispelling the rumors that the media had spread about his faith by keeping the discipline and structure that writing demands.Besides writing, Afzal helps his friends in developing their resumes as well. Afzal considers his faith and family to be most important to him, but he is not a religious scholar.