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Hailed by The Washington Post as "obligatory reading" and praised by Fareed Zakaria as "intelligent, compassionate, and revealing", this powerful trip will help bridge one of the greatest divides shaping our world today. If the Oceans Were Printer ink is Carla Power's eye-opening report of how she and her longtime friend, Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi, found a way to confront unattractive stereotypes and prolonged misperceptions which were cleaving their neighborhoods. Their companionship - between a secular North american and a madrasa-trained sheikh - had always seemed improbable, but now they were frustrated and bewildered by the fights being fought in their titles. Both knew that a close go through the Quran would show a faith that preached calmness and not mass murder, value for women and not oppression. And they also embarked on a yearlong trip through the controversial text. A journalist who was raised in the Midwest and the center East, Power offers her unique vantage point on the Quran's most provocative verses as she debates with Akram at cafés, family gatherings, and filled lecture halls, interactions filled up with both good laughter and powerful insights. Their report takes these to madrasas in India and pilgrimage sites in Mecca as they encounter politicians and jihadis, feminist activists and conventional scholars. Equipped with a fresh knowledge of each other's worldview, Power and Akram offer eye-opening perspectives, eliminate long-held common myths, and reveal startling contacts between worlds that contain felt hopelessly divided for far too long.
