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What’s In Your Ear? | Imam Omar Suleiman

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What’s in Your Ear? is an occasional Saturday series where we ask Muslims, known and unknown, a few simple questions:

1. What are you listening to?
2. What are you reading?
3. What are you watching?
4. What technology are you rocking, Mac or PC? Kindle, iPad, Android phone, etc?
5. What’s the best piece of advice you’ve received or an advice you have for MM’s readers?

In this week’s WIYE, Iesa Galloway interviews Omar Suleiman – Imam of Masjid Abu Bakr Al-Siddique in New Orleans, LA, and a member of the ICNA Shariah Council.

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Paul "Iesa" Galloway is a native born Texan. He was recently called "the Yoda of interfaith affairs" by a colleague from his daytime gig. After hours Iesa serves as a consultant, messaging strategist and trainer on media, government and community relations. Iesa is a product of the "Military Brat" experience of the 1990's on US Army bases in Germany he has traveled extensively, for extended periods in Kenya, Hungary and Communist Poland on missionary trips, visited Communist East Germany with the Boy Scouts of America, as well as enjoyed time in France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Holland and Austria. Since embracing Islam, Iesa was asked to be the founding Executive Director of CAIR-Houston, where he served the community from 2002 to 2006, he has completed the Hajj pilgrimage, participated in an interfaith pilgrimage to the Holy Land with the Society for Biblical Studies and completed a study abroad program on the history of Islamic Spain, Morocco and Andalusian Philosophy with the University of Houston. Iesa's education is rooted in History and Public Relations and he has a interfaith and multiracial background.

3 Comments

3 Comments

  1. Saher

    November 14, 2011 at 2:15 AM

    Salaam,

    What is the book of happiness is the Imam speaking about? I couldn’t catch the name of the author or the arabic title?

    Thank you.

  2. Abu Maryam

    November 14, 2011 at 4:55 AM

    مفتاح دار السعادة – ابن قيم الجوزية

  3. Kwame Madden

    November 15, 2011 at 5:08 PM

    Mashallah beautiful interview I love when he talked about Ibn Qayyim one of the greatest scholars this ummah has produced.May Allah preserve both Omar and Isa !Ameen

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