BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//http://www.friendsoflglibrary.org//NONSGML jCal Pro 2.2.13.575// VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:JCal Pro Calendar X-WR-CALDESC:Your online events calendar X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:bc9f575f7965ab683004f3a3dc971623http://www.friendsoflglibrary.org/admin istrator DTSTAMP:20120519T162711Z CONTACT:408.399.5700 DESCRIPTION:\n \n \nTea and Talk about The Muslim Next Door  (A Silicon Valley Reads Book Selection) (http://siliconvalleyreads.org/2012-13/defaul t.asp)\nLocation: History Club of Los Gatos\, 123 Los Gatos Blvd.\, Los Ga tos\, 95030\nHear author\, Sumbul Ali-Karamali\, interviewed by Dale Bryan t\, Executive Editor of Silicon Valley Community Newspapers.   Q&\;A and a chance to discuss the book while enjoying light refreshments sponsor ed by Friends of the Los Gatos Library. To RSVP\, email your name\, phone and number attending to \n This e-mail address is being protected from spa mbots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it\n or call 408-399-5700. (RS VP for this event only).\n \nIn her new book\, The Muslim Next Door: the Qur'an\, the Media\, and that Veil Thing\, author Sumbul Ali-Karamali\, a Stanford - educated mom and corporate lawyer with degrees in Islamic law a nd English\, invites you inside for a candid\, witty\, and surprisingly do wn-to-earth conversation about Muslim life in America. Warm\, funny\, an d yet scholarly\, The Muslim Next Door: the Qur'an\, the Media\, and that Veil Thing reliably answers questions about Islam from an American Muslim woman's point of view\, discussing subjects from the basic (is Allah diffe rent from God?) to the complex (does jihad not mean holy war?) to the bord erline ridiculous ("\;what do you mean you can't go to the prom becaus e of your religion?!"\;).\nSumbul Ali-Karamali grew up in Southern Cal ifornia in an ethnically South Asian family. She earned her undergraduate degree in English\, with Distinction\, from Stanford University. After wor king as an editor in a publishing company\, she attended law school and gr aduated with her J.D. from the University of California at Davis. She prac ticed corporate law in San Francisco for several years.\nSumbul is current ly spending her time on speaking engagements\, radio and television interv iews\, writing\, raising her two children\, and volunteering her time to v arious causes. She serves on the board of trustees of a nonprofit educatio nal institution that teaches multicultural education and environmental edu cation to children and youth. She also serves on the steering committee of Women in Islamic Spirituality and Equality (WISE)\, an initiative dedicat ed to mobilizing a movement for social justice. For enjoyment\, Sumbul pla ys her violin\, teaches the occasional Indian cooking class\, and watches Star Trek reruns with her family.\nRSVP is required.\n10-11:30 a.m. at His tory Club of Los Gatos\, 123 Los Gatos Blvd.\, Los Gatos\,95030\n \n \n \n \nYes\, books will be available for sale and author will sign books.\n\n  DTEND:20120316T183000Z DTSTART:20120316T170000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120111T233400Z SUMMARY:Tea And Talk With Author\, Sumbul Ali-Karamali END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR