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Course Description

Join us as Co-Authors Sabeeha Rehman and Walter Ruby, a Muslim-American woman of Pakistani origin and a Jewish-American man who spent his formative years in Israel, will share their story of how they connected and embarked on a mission to bring their respective communities together in their common homeland, America. It is their hope that this book will inspire people of all faiths and ethnicities to reach out to each other and heal our nation.

Bio

Sabeeha Rehman is an author, blogger, and speaker in the American Muslim experience. Her memoir, Threading My Prayer Rug: One Woman’s Journey from Pakistani Muslim to American Muslim, has won several awards. Selections for the book have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Salon.com and Tiferet Journal. Since the publication of her memoir she has given more than 250 talks in nearly 100 cities, at houses of worship, academic institutions, libraries, community organizations, and at Chautauqua Institution where her lectures have been sold out. She is an op-ed contributor to The Houses of Worship section of the Wall Street Journal and New York Daily News. She lives with her husband in New York City. Walter Ruby is a veteran activist in Muslim-Jewish relations. Since 2008, when he became the Muslim-Jewish program director at the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, he has brought together tens of thousands of Jews and Muslims in more than thirty countries on five continents. He has worked as a journalist for more than 40 years mainly for American Jewish and Israeli publications. He has also published articles and op-ed pieces in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Daily News, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Dallas Morning News. He serves as executive director of Jews, Muslims and Allies Working Together, a Washington area grassroots interfaith group and lives in Washington, DC.

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