Carla Power, former foreign correspondent for Newsweek, and author of If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran (Holt Paperbacks, 2015), recounts the year she devoted to studying the Quran with Sheikh Akram, a friend and former colleague from Oxford. Together they found a way to confront ugly stereotypes and persistent misperceptions that were cleaving their communities.
.@carlapower was raised to be secular, but spent a year studying the Quran with Sheikh Akram to try to dislodge negative stereotypes.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) May 26, 2015
.@carlapower says the saying "there is no compulsion in religion" is fundamental to the Quran & how the prophet Muhammad behaved.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) May 26, 2015
This interview was attempted on April 28th, but halted due to technical difficulties.