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← Older posts“The Jewel of Medina”: Censorship, Islam, and the Historical Fiction Way
March 2, 2013WHEN DO WE START BURNING BOOKS? Posted on March 2, 2013by colinfalconer Here’s a question for you: what kind of books should we burn? Mein Kampf? The Satanic Verses? Harry Potter? (Yes, it’s happened.) I have just finished reading The Jewel of Medina, Sherry Jones’ best-selling … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged "The Jewel of Medina, censorship, Colin Falconer, Gibson Square, historical fiction, Islam, Sherry Jones | Leave a commentWhat ‘The Innocence of Muslims’ and THE JEWEL OF MEDINA Have in Common
October 3, 2012That attack last month on the Libyan consulate and the terrible murder of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens? The riots and demonstrations against the anti-Islam video “The Innocence of Muslims?” It’s exactly what the higher-ups at Random House feared would happen … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged "Innocence of Muslims", "The Jewel of Medina, Gibson Square, Islam | 4 CommentsCourage, Islam, the West, and THE JEWEL OF MEDINA
October 2, 2012I remember the moment I discovered A’isha bint Abi Bakr, the youngest wife of the Prophet Muhammad. I found her in a book on women in Islam that I read after 9/11, when many of us were learning for the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged "The Jewel of Medina, A'isha, Beaufort Books, Blic, censorship, Denise Spellberg, free speech, historical fiction, Islam, Muhammad, Salman Rushdie, serbia, Wall Street Journal | Leave a commentA’isha Still Inspires Me
September 11, 2012Here is the speech I gave on Sept. 11, 2012, at the Spokane Coeur d’Alene Woman Magazine Luncheon: “Moments,” I once wrote, “are the hinges on which the doors of the human universe swing.” I’m here to tell you about … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged "Four Sisters, "The Jewel of Medina, "The Sword of Medina", A'isha, All Queens, feminism, Islam, Muhammad, queens, White Heart, women | 1 CommentHow I Got My Agent
July 18, 2011The first literary agent who read the manuscript of my first novel snapped it up. Don’t hate me, though: She turned it down the first time she read it, plunging me into despair. Why did Natasha Kern reject my first … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged "The Jewel of Medina, "The Sword of Medina", agents, books, Natasha Kern, Paul Vandevelder, publishing, writing | 7 CommentsPassion: More Than Just Play
November 26, 2010In 52 years of marriage,Vladimir Nabokov wrote hundreds of love letters to his wife, Vera. This I find touching, even moving. But surprising? Hardly. Nabokov was a writer, after all, and no doubt he expressed himself most perfectly via the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged "The Jewel of Medina, "The Sword of Medina", Islam, journalism, Nabokov, passion, writers, writing | Leave a commentLet's take our country back!
October 31, 2010Here’s the text of my speech against Islamophobia given at Portland State University Friday, Oct. 29: As the author of two novels about the Prophet Muhammad and his controversial bride A’isha bint Abi Bakr, I know something about hate. I … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged " "Random House", "The Jewel of Medina, "The Sword of Medina", A'isha, Abu Bakr, Ali, Ballantine, Bill O'Reilly, Denise Spellberg, fear, FOX News, hate, Islamophobia, Muhammad, Portland State University, Sherry Jones, Tea Party | 4 CommentsMy Story: Finding Power Within
May 18, 2010Dear Reader, Every writer, it’s said, has a single story to tell — and tells it over and over again. A’isha bint Abi Bakr, the most famous and influential woman in Islam, inspired me to write about her life in … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged " power, "Four Sisters, "The Jewel of Medina, "The Sword of Medina", A'isha, All Queens, authors, child marriage, Muhammad, story, writing | Leave a commentNo laughing matter: "Index on Censorship" censors itself
December 18, 2009Where are the heroes? Now that Index on Censorship has failed us, where in the UK and America can we turn for defense of this most precious of freedoms Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged "The Jewel of Medina, censorship, Danish cartoons, Jytte Klausen, Kenan Malik, self-censorship, The Cartoons that Shook the World, The New Humanist, Yale University Press | 11 CommentsThe only thing we have to fear
November 2, 2009Every time Muslim terrorists kill, and every time they’re arrested on U.S. soil, the risk increases that we will repeat history and let hatred overrule our reason. Continue reading
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