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A finalist for the Pulitzer and National Book Awards, Carla Power began her career at Newsweek, where she was a foreign correspondent. Her writing has appeared in Time, Vogue, Glamour, The New York Times Magazine, and Foreign Policy. Her work has been recognized with an Overseas Press Club award, a Women in Media Award, and the National Women’s Political Caucus’s EMMA Award. She holds a graduate degree in Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford, as well as degrees from Yale and Columbia.

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	If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran 4.12 avg rating — 2,047 ratings — published 2015 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back From Extremism 4.03 avg rating — 262 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Anybody who forces people to change their beliefs, they are not a teacher. Learning should come from understanding properly, not from being forced.”
― Carla Power, If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran

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“This freedom people talk about, to buy whatever they like, wear whatever they like, drink and so on, this is not good for the people," he later told me. "True freedom means freedom from desire. True freedom means freedom of thinking. If your mind just follows your desires - how to make more money, how to eat more, drink more, have more things - it's really worse than slavery.”
― Carla Power, If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran

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“Too often the meaning of the hijab is taken as clear and unequivocal, like an on-off switch, a neat binary code. A Muslim woman is “traditional” if she wears one, “modern” if she doesn’t. “Oppressed” if she wears one, “liberated” if not. Scarf on: “devout.” Scarfless: “moderate,” or, who knows? Perhaps even “secular.”
― Carla Power, If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran

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