
The Butterfly Mosque
A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam
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Narrated by:
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Catherine Byers
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By:
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G. Willow Wilson
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.
When G. 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.
She settles in Cairo, where she teaches English and submerges herself in a culture based on her adopted religion. And then she meets Omar, a passionate young man with a mild resentment of the Western influences in his homeland. They fall in love, entering into a daring relationship that calls into question the very nature of family, belief, and tradition. 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.
©2010 G. Willow Wilson. Recorded by arrangement with Grove Atlantic, Inc. (P)2014 Audible Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















Very insightful
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Engaging, Insightful, Suspenseful, Fascinating
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Interesting insight into female Muslim mind.
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Beautiful story
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The enunciation of Arabic words is a major drawback.
Overall I enjoyed every bit of it. A book for everyone!
From the heart!
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A well written story
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The reader...
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I do admire her journey in impressing Islam
I hope she’s writing now about her and Omar journey in the USA and how their life as Muslims in the USA
To be continued !!!
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I was surprised
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I greatly enjoyed this book, but if one thing could be improved upon it would be the pronunciation.
A small amount of effort regarding basic greetings would have gone a long way, but other than that the narration was quite nice and carried the excitement and emotion in the book.
Vivid
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