ICCNC - Islam and Authors: G. Willow Wilson

Join us on Saturday July 10, 2010 at 6 pm for an on-stage conversation with American author G. Wilson about her latest book "The Butterfly Mosque".

Tickets are $7 per person for general public and $5 for the students. Her books will be available for sale and book signing after the program.

G. Willow Wilson is an American author and essayist who divides her time between Egypt and the US. Her articles about modern religion and the Middle East have appeared in publications including the Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine and The Canada National Post.

Willow was born in New Jersey in 1982, and later moved to Colorado. She began her writing career at 17, when she freelanced as a music and DJ critic for Boston’s Weekly Digg while a student at Boston University. After graduating with a degree in History and coursework in Arabic language and literature, Willow moved to Cairo, where she became the first western writer to interview Sheikh Ali Gomaa, the current Mufti of Egypt and one of the most influential clerics in modern Islam. She was a regular contributor to the Egyptian opposition weekly Cairo Magazine until it closed in 2005.

Willow is a convert to Islam and her commentary often addresses Islamic and interfaith issues. An avid supporter of new and alternative media, Willow has written for politics and culture blogs from across the political spectrum, including Eteraz.org and Dean’s World.

Since the age of eleven, when she first picked up a copy of The Uncanny X-Men, Willow has been a dedicated reader of comics and graphic novels. Today she writes both for DC Comics and its literary imprint, Vertigo.
For more info please visit her website at:

http://www.gwillowwilson.com/index.php