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News and EventsEvents:January 31, 2009: Reading, signing, and book group discussion at The Paper House, St. Marie's, Idaho. January 31, 2009: Lecture: "Burqas, Beware: Muhammad was a Feminist," 12 p.m., Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA February 26, 2009: Reading and signing of "The Jewel of Medina" at BookPeople, Austin, TX.
More events coming up, including readings in the U.S. and promotional events in Spain and Denmark!
On the website Qantara.de, Sherry talks about the choices she made for "The Jewel of Medina" in the interview, "My Novel Presents a Bold Aisha."
to read it. For the German version, go to the Germany page.
Click here to read an article about "The Jewel of Medina" (or, in Italian, "A'isha, L'Amata di Maometto," published in the Italian magazine "Liberal." (Note: article is in Italian)
Here's an article about "The Jewel of Medina" controversy and free speech from the Sydney, Australia, Morning Herald:
Australian journalist Janet Albrechtson writes today about the future of free speech and posts a letter from Sherry on the Real Clear Politics web site:
From the Hudson Institute, a thought-provoking review of the New York Times' review of "The Jewel of Medina."
Commentators are responding to a NYT reviewer's insinuation that "The Jewel of Medina" doesn't deserve free-speech protections:
London's The Guardian newspaper publishes an editorial about the campaign by some Muslim groups to prevent the book's being published in the UK. to read the article.
An interview with Sherry was published in the November 2008 issue of the Sociology of Islam and Muslim Societies Newsletter. Its author, Tugrul Keskin, is a researcher in Virginia Tech's sociology department. Click here to read the interview in PDF format.
Here's an article, published in U.K.'s The Guardian in September, that offers a perspective on the controversy from a moderate American Muslim's point of view. Click here to read it in PDF format.
Here's an interview with Sherry in the November issue of "Northwest Woman" magazine (), published in Spokane, Wash. Click here to read it in PDF format.
On Aug. 6, 2008, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed piece, by Muslim-American journalist Asra Nomani, that broke the story to the world about Random House's decision to indefinitely postpone publication of "The Jewel of Medina." to read the editorial.
In early October, Sherry and her U.S. publisher, Beaufort Books,decided to hasten the release of "The Jewel of Medina" to try to quell dangerous, untrue rumors about the book. Here's the Associated Press video in which publisher Eric Kampmann discusses our decision:
Here's a news report from KXLY-TV in Spokane, aired in advance of Sherry's (hugely successful) Oct. 10 reading at Auntie's bookstore:
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