Carla Power is a journalist specializing in Muslim societies, global social issues, and culture. A frequent contributor to Time Magazine, she is a former Newsweek correspondent, who in her decade at the magazine 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 Glamour to The New York Times Magazine and Foreign Policy.
She has been writing on Islam since the early 1990s, first as a Junior Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, then as a journalist. She graduated from Yale University cum laude in 1988, and went on to receive a degree from the Journalism School at Columbia University, and an M.Phil. from St. Antony's College, Oxford University in Modern Middle Eastern Studies. Married, with two young daughters, she lives in North London and is currently writing a book on the global Muslim women's movement.
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