Lauren Booth speaks about converting to Islam and says her lineage is no longer simply that of a British person but that she very much feels part of the Islamic tradition
The first foreign language edition of Booth’s new book,"In Search of a Holy Land", has been published in Turkish. as such: "The daughter of a Jewish model and troubled TV star, Lauren Booth survived a house fire, lived through the excesses of the nineties as an aspiring actress ... put her life as a parent at risk to report on Palestine, twice, found faith in a mosque in Iran.
Booth embraced Islam 11 years ago, during her travels to the Middle East. She is an author, journalist and a motivational speaker. Her recent book, In Search of a Holy Land, has recently been published in Turkish. Booth has travelled all around the Muslim world and ended up in Istanbul three years ago, where she now resides. She says she is "grateful to Allah for being drawn to Türkiye."
"The more that I found myself going to these big great mosques the more I realised that as a Western person, my idea of the Ottoman Empire of who the Turks were was so jaded by Orientalism, I had to start again.She has already covered the Suleymaniye Mosque, and the neighbourhoods of Kuzguncuk and Uskudar, "the hidden gem, the Holy Land of Istanbul."
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