American - Writer | August 31, 1982 -
In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
G. Willow Wilson
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We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small - the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.
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The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent.
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The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.
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Most people know Muslims in their community but don't realize it.
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In all likelihood, you've been treated by a Muslim doctor or served by a Muslim waiter or worked beside a Muslim computer programmer. Even if you think, 'I don't know any Muslims,' it's probably not true.
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Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics.
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There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics.
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