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Carla power, who talks about the misconceptions westerners have about islam. It is a topic she writes about in if the oceans work ink. From the Commonwealth Club of california, this is an hour and 10 minutes. Jonathan my mic is on. That is an auspicious start. Good evening. Welcome to todays meeting of the Commonwealth Club of california, the place where you are in the know. We are online at commonwealthclub. Org. I am jonathan curiel, your moderator for todays program, cold bridging islam and the west. I want to introduce our esteemed speaker, carla power. Those of you who know carla know she...

I will start back in my childhood. Half the time i grew up in the midwest and have the time in the middle east and other islamic countries. I spent my childhood shuttling between suburban st. Louis and places like chiron and kabul and cairo. I got interested in islamic issues kind of the aesthetically, and then i went on to study them. As a journalist i was frustrated because as much as i tried to write about them i found that the narrative kind of bifurcated. One is that i was writing about strongmen with kalashnikovs, and oppressed women. Those were the two trope i would inevitably get writt...