Chautauqua Speaks
Threading My Prayer Rug
- TUES, JULY 8, 2025
- 9:15-10:15 AM
- CWC House
SPEAKER:
Sabeeha Rehman, author, podcaster, blogger and speaker on the American Muslim experience, is best known for her memoir Threading My Prayer Rug. She has co-authored with Walter Ruby We Refuse to be Enemies: How Muslims and Jews Can Make Peace, One Friendship at a Time, and they co-host a podcast with the same title. In 2022 she published her third book It’s Not What You Think: An American in Saudi Arabia. Her writings have been published in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, New York Daily News, Forward, The Baltimore Sun, Washington Jewish Week, Tiferet, and Patheos.com.
Description:
Sabeeha will talk about her journey of coming to America after a hurried arranged marriage in Pakistan, from a secular Muslim in an Islamic society to a devout Muslim in American culture, and from an immigrant intending to stay two years to an American citizen, business executive, grandmother, and advocate for interfaith understanding. She will share her stories of her struggles balancing assimilation with preserving heritage and confronting issues of raising her children as Muslims.