Author Krista Bremer discusses her new book: My Accidental Jihad

The Center for Documentary Studies and Arts & Health at Duke will be hosting Krista Bremer for a reading and discussion of her new book, My Accidental Jihad. The event will take place at 7:00 pm at the Center for Documentary Studies on Weds, March 26. Books will be available for purchase. ¿My Accidental Jihad is a bold piece of writing (and thinking) by an incredibly brave writer.¿ --Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, LoveFifteen years ago, Krista Bremer would not have been able to imagine her life today: married to a Libyan-born Muslim, raising two children with Arabic names in the American South. Nor could she have imagined the prejudice she would encounter or the profound ways her marriage would change her perception of the world. But on a running trail in North Carolina, she met an older man named Ismail. He was passionate and sincere -- and he loved adventure as much as she did. From acquaintances to lovers to a couple facing an unexpected pregnancy, this is the story of two people¿a middle-class American raised in Southern California and a Muslim raised by illiterate parents in an impoverished Libyan fishing village ¿ who made a commitment to one another without forsaking their own identities. Their compelling journey, which takes the reader from the contemporary south to a restless Libya in flux, provides a lesson to each of us on how to determine our own truths.