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Reformists is a hero
Standing Alone in Mecca
by Asra Nomani
Another female hero - I wish her well in her path out of religious fundamentalism.
Click on her C-Span interview on Afterwords. C-Span 2 Book TV but I am reproducing their review below in case you do not,
On Sunday, July 24 at 6:00 pm and at 9:00 pm
After Words: Asra Nomani interviewed by Akbar Ahmed
Description: This week on After Words Asra Nomani, a former Wall Street Journal correspondent discusses her campaign against sexism in her local mosque in Morgantown West Virginia. Her book is titled, "Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam." She is interviewed by Akbar Ahmed, Islamic Scholar and Professor at American University.
Author Bio: Asra Nomani is a former Wall Street Journal correspondent. She has also written for the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Time magazine on Islam. She covered the war in Afghanistan for Salon, and her work has appeared in Cosmo, Sports Illustrated for Women, and People.
Ms. Nomani currently lives in Morgantown, West Virginia with her son. There, she challenged rules at her mosque that required women enter through a back door and pray in a secluded balcony. She is on trial at her mosque to be banished. Ms. Nomani is the founder and creator of the Muslim Women's Freedom Tour.
On March 1, 2005, she posted on the doors of her mosque in Morgantown "99 Precepts for Opening Hearts, Minds and Doors in the Muslim World." She was the lead organizer of the woman-led Muslim prayer in New York City on March 18, 2005.
She was a visiting scholar at the Center for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. She is the author of Tantrika: Traveling the Road of Divine Love.
Akbar Ahmed holds the Chair of Islamic Studies and a professor of international studies at American University in Washington, D.C. Professor Ahmed is an anthropologist, writer, and filmmaker and the author of numerous books on contemporary Islam, such as Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Society and Postmodernism and Islam: Predicament and Promise, Islam Under Siege, and co-editor of a new compilation of essays titled After Terror: Accelerating Dialogue among Civilizations.
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by Asra Nomani
Another female hero - I wish her well in her path out of religious fundamentalism.
Click on her C-Span interview on Afterwords. C-Span 2 Book TV but I am reproducing their review below in case you do not,
On Sunday, July 24 at 6:00 pm and at 9:00 pm
After Words: Asra Nomani interviewed by Akbar Ahmed
Description: This week on After Words Asra Nomani, a former Wall Street Journal correspondent discusses her campaign against sexism in her local mosque in Morgantown West Virginia. Her book is titled, "Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam." She is interviewed by Akbar Ahmed, Islamic Scholar and Professor at American University.
Author Bio: Asra Nomani is a former Wall Street Journal correspondent. She has also written for the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Time magazine on Islam. She covered the war in Afghanistan for Salon, and her work has appeared in Cosmo, Sports Illustrated for Women, and People.
Ms. Nomani currently lives in Morgantown, West Virginia with her son. There, she challenged rules at her mosque that required women enter through a back door and pray in a secluded balcony. She is on trial at her mosque to be banished. Ms. Nomani is the founder and creator of the Muslim Women's Freedom Tour.
On March 1, 2005, she posted on the doors of her mosque in Morgantown "99 Precepts for Opening Hearts, Minds and Doors in the Muslim World." She was the lead organizer of the woman-led Muslim prayer in New York City on March 18, 2005.
She was a visiting scholar at the Center for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. She is the author of Tantrika: Traveling the Road of Divine Love.
Akbar Ahmed holds the Chair of Islamic Studies and a professor of international studies at American University in Washington, D.C. Professor Ahmed is an anthropologist, writer, and filmmaker and the author of numerous books on contemporary Islam, such as Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Society and Postmodernism and Islam: Predicament and Promise, Islam Under Siege, and co-editor of a new compilation of essays titled After Terror: Accelerating Dialogue among Civilizations.
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