How to Be a Muslim: An American Story

How do you deal with being a representative for your religion when you struggle with your own faith? Harvard Book Store and the Harvard Islamic Society welcome the Shalom Hartman Institute’s HAROON MOGHUL for a discussion of his book, How to Be a Muslim: An American Story—a memoir of his struggles to forge an American Muslim identity.

How to Be a Muslim reveals a young man coping with the crushing pressure of a world that fears Muslims, searchign for intellectual forebears, and suffering the onset of bipolar disorder. This is the story of the second-generation immigrant, of what it’s like to lose yourself between cultures and how to pick up the pieces.