Ink to Paper

If the Oceans Were Ink, by Carla Power ’95JRN, was named a finalist for the National Book Award in the nonfiction category. The book chronicles the year Power spent studying the Koran with the Islamic scholar Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi. A journalist who grew up in both the American Midwest and the Middle East, Power has written about Muslim societies, global social issues, and culture as a correspondent for Time and Newsweek.