![]() ![]() Torn between the secular West and Muslim East, Willow records her intensely personal struggle to forge a "third culture" that might accommodate her own values without compromising the friends and family on both sides of the divide. They fall in love, entering into a daring relationship that calls into question the very nature of family, belief, and tradition. What strikes me most about the memoir is her clarity of thought at such a young age (I think shes in her mid to late 20s at the time of writing). ![]() And then she meets Omar, a passionate young man with a mild resentment of the Western influences in his homeland. The Butterfly Mosque is an earnest, heartfelt narrative that describes Willow Wilsons religious, cultural, and professional journey. Butterfly Mosque is an inspiring account of an unlikely cross-cultural love, and the moving story of two young people working within the boundaries of contemporary religion and culture to forge a life together against the odds. She settles in Cairo, where she teaches English and submerges herself in a culture based on her adopted religion. Willow Wilson - already an accomplished writer on modern religion and the Middle East at just 27 - leaves her atheist parents in Denver to study at Boston University, she enrolls in an Islamic Studies course that leads to her shocking conversion to Islam and sends her on a fated journey across continents and into an uncertain future. ![]() The extraordinary story of an all-American girl's conversion to Islam and her ensuing romance with a young Egyptian man, The Butterfly Mosque is a stunning articulation of a Westerner embracing the Muslim world. ![]()
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