Growing Up Muslim

Andrew Garrod is Professor Emeritus of Education at Dartmouth College. He is coeditor of First Person, First Peoples: Native American College Graduates Tell Their Life Stories, Balancing Two Worlds: Asian American College Students Tell Their Life Stories, Mi Voz, Mi Vida: Latino College Students Tell Their Life Stories, and Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories, all from Cornell. Robert Kilkenny is Executive Director of the Alliance for Inclusion and Prevention and a Clinical Associate in the School of Social Work at Simmons College. He is coeditor of Mi Voz, Mi Vida, Balancing Two Worlds, and Mixed. Eboo Patel, a leading public figure in the Muslim American community, is the author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, in the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation and Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America. He is also a regular contributor to the Washington Post, National Public Radio, and CNN, and he was a member of President Obama’s Advisory Council of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

Introduction

Eboo Patel

PART I. STRUGGLES WITH DIVERSITY

1. Far from Getting Lost

Zahra Ahmed

2. A World More Complex Than I Thought

Ala' Alrababa’h

3. My Expanding World

Asyah Saif

4. The Novice’s Story

Abdul Moustafa

PART II. STRUGGLES WITH ISLAMOPHOBIA

5. A Muslim Citizen of the Democratic West

Aly Rahim

6. Living Like a Kite

Shakir Quraishi

PART III. STRUGGLES WITH SEXUALITY AND RELATIONSHIPS

7. The Burden

Abdel Jamali

8. My Permanent Home

Sabeen Hassanali

PART IV. STRUGGLES WITH PIETY

9. On the Outside

Arif Khan

10. Being Muslim at Dartmouth

Adam W.

11. Shadowlands

Sarah Chaudhry

12. The Headscarf

Sara L.

PART V. STRUGGLES WITH FAMILY

13. A Child of Experience

Tafaoul Abdelmagid

14. A Debt to Those Who Know Us

Nasir Nasser

About the Editors and Author of the Introduction