The Sydney Morning Herald's Michael Wilding called it "a gentle and genial memoir of the migrant experience",[6] while Tory Shepherd gave it a 2 1/2 star review in The Advertiser.

[8] In September 2012, the ABC program "Media Watch [has] identified six other articles by Tanveer Ahmed, including one written for the website Mamamia, which contain passages lifted from other sources".

[10] In December 2016 Connor Court published his book Fragile Nation: Vulnerability, Resilience and Victimhood, observations of Australian society based on his work as a psychiatrist.

[13] Ahmed re-established himself in the Liberal-conversative mainstream with regular contributions to the Australian Financial Review since 2017 and appearances on Channel Nine's 60 Minutes, ABC radio and Sky News.

[14] Reviewer David Ferrell wrote in the Canberra Times that the book represented a "titular defence of shame identifies many of the psychical and social malaises of modernity".

[15] Ahmed was an appointee to the Advertising Standards Bureau board between 2006 and 2011[16] and supported the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women proclaimed by the United Nations.