A journalist specializing in Muslim societies, global social issues and culture, Carla Power writes for Time and is a former correspondent for Newsweek, where she produced award-winning stories, reporting from Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Her essays have appeared in a wide range of publications, from Vogue and O: The Oprah Magazine to The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, and Foreign Policy. Power is the author of the If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran (Henry Holt)—a 2015 National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction —is an account of her year spent studying with the traditional Islamic scholar Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi.
NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2015