{"id":8795,"date":"2010-10-13T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=8795"},"modified":"2010-10-07T14:23:16","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T20:23:16","slug":"the-butterfly-mosque-by-g-willow-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-butterfly-mosque-by-g-willow-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"The Butterfly Mosque by G. Willow Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Butterfly Mosque<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by G. Willow Wilson is the memoir of a young woman who makes the life-changing decision to abandon atheism and convert to Islam.\u00a0 After being offered a teaching position at the Language School, Wilson moves to Cairo, Egypt, where she experiences what it is really like to be a Muslim woman in a Middle Eastern country.\u00a0 Here she quickly discovers that she must learn all over again how to do simple things\u00a0like greet someone and shop for groceries.\u00a0 Her life takes an unexpected turn when she\u00a0meets Omar, who defies the stereotypes of Muslim men she has always heard about.\u00a0 As Omar teaches Willow how to get by in this new environment, the two fall in love and embark upon a new journey where two cultures come together and learn to relate to one another.<\/p>\n

I absolutely loved this book.\u00a0 I was a Religion major in college, so I had a little background knowledge of Islam, but I learned so much more about it from reading an actual Muslim woman’s perspective.\u00a0 It was incredibly enlightening to learn about what it’s like for a real Muslim woman in the Middle East, rather than just focusing on the often sad images we see on the news.\u00a0 Despite being in a place so different from where we live, the story is still relatable, and the author\u00a0takes care\u00a0to always explain Arabic words and cultural concepts to the reader.\u00a0 If you’re interested in learning about about Islam but want something that reads like a novel rather than a textbook, I highly recommend The Butterfly Mosque<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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