The Muslim -- Write Stuff -- 5/1/2018

Love in a time of Terror

On a beautiful spring day in 2001, a 9-year-old American girl met a 10-year-old Arab boy who played the Arabic flute in the Persian garden of an Israeli electronics engineer. They knew nothing about each other. Karen knew only that boy with the flute was named was Omar, and his music was the most beautiful sound she had ever heard. Omar knew only that the girl from America was named Karen, and had golden hair. Neither understood that they lived at the end of an era, the era before September 11th, 2001, when the War on Terror began and divided their cultures forever.

Twenty years later, on a chance encounter, Karen Wingfield meets a man named Omar Arraf working at a local business in Oklahoma City. Could he be the boy with the flute? 

The Muslim, by Callen Clarke explores the loves, the hates, and the passions of two cultures, Palestinian and American, what divides us as citizens, and what unites us as human beings. A story of Love and Tragedy in the grand tradition of Romeo and Juliet, The Muslim by Callen Clarke uncovers the universal truths concealed beneath the prejudices of politics, lust, and religion, while illuminating the world-changing power of the greatest weapon in human conflict: Grace.

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