My mother is an Irish Christian. My father is a Lebanese Muslim. I grew up surrounded and immersed in both faiths. I attended Sunday school (where I coloured in Jesus cartoons with a brown crayon because he “looked like my dad”), and I prayed with my family at the mosque when I could. I was…
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Converts Crossing the Gap of Misunderstanding
A Christian Student in the UK. A Muslim Teacher in Italy. What could possibly unite these two people? Well, they both happen to be snapshots of my own life. My past and present. I was raised as a Christian in the UK and converted to Islam just over two years ago while living in Italy….