You’re Born With Wings – Why Prefer to Crawl??
There are few people among us that are able to raise their voices for something bigger and achieve real progress for large groups of people. One of those people is the inspiring Daisy Khan and I’m so so thrilled to introduce you to her.
Daisy is the Founder and Executive Director of the Women’s Islamic Initiative for Spirituality and Equality (WISE). Named one of the “10 Muslim Women Every Person Should Know” by the Huffington Post and one of Time’s “100 Most Influential People”, Daisy Khan tells the story of her spiritual journey and how she uses her faith to overcome adversity for herself and those around her in her upcoming memoir BORN WITH WINGS (A Spiegel & Grau Hardcover, on sale April 24).
WISE is a global network of Muslim women who have been championing Muslim women’s equality in spirituality, politics, and society since 2006. Kat, Krista, and I sat with one of my heroes to talk spirituality, equality, growth, God, and the release of her new book Born With Wings on our podcast Selfcare Tuesdays.
[Khan] passionately tells her singular life story in this fine memoir. Readers will be entranced as they see Khan’s persistent fight for peaceful dialogue in a world sometimes torn apart by religious conflict and misunderstanding…a testament to courage and resilience as well as an important chapter in the story of American Muslims and women of faith.
—Publishers Weekly
About Daisy Khan
Daisy was born in Kashmir, went to high school on Long Island, and then worked as an architect in New York City. When she first moved to the US, Daisy had a hard time reconciling the beautiful and gentle religion of her childhood with what she was seeing it transformed into in the world today. She stopped practicing. Years later, when she happened to walk into a Sufi mosque in downtown Manhattan, she was surprised to discover a home there, eventually marrying the imam of the Mosque, Feisal Abdul Rauf, and finding herself at the center of a community in which, as the imam’s wife, women turned to her for advice. She embraced her role as a women’s advocate: she has created innovative ways to work with imams to end child marriage, eradicate female genital mutilation, and most recently educate young Muslims to resist the seductive promises of ISIS recruiters. Daisy is one of the most prominent Muslim women in New York as well as the founder of WISE up, the Women’s Islamic Initiative for Spirituality & Equality, one of the largest global movements of women that works to reclaim women’s rights.
What others are saying ↓
Daisy Khan is one of the most prominent Muslim voices in America, and an icon of female empowerment across the globe. This beautiful story of her spiritual journey is an inspiration to anyone who seeks to change the world.
–Reza Aslan, author of No god but God and Zealot.
Born with Wings is the powerful, moving story of a woman’s spiritual growth—and of her trailblazing work on behalf of Muslim women’s rights. With drama, poignancy, and urgency, Daisy Khan pulls the reader in and never lets go. A gripping, fascinating, and important read.
–Marie C. Wilson, former President of the Ms. Foundation for Women and The White House Project
Daisy Khan is an agent – an angel – of change. She has written a colorful, humane memoir with clear-eyed, scripture-based determination. Her clarion message arrives when the world is rife with anti-Muslim rhetoric. But beyond the scope of any faith tradition, it joins an epoch-defining chorus of women’s narratives. We must listen.
—Ambassador Swanee Hunt, Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Founder of Inclusive Security
BORN WITH WINGS is Daisy’s inspirational journey and the stories of those who have inspired and guided her along the way. Get your copy here!
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