Here is the video of the interview conducted on live television on May 12, 2008 at the Noor TV studios for the FALAH TV program. This is my abridged ‘conversion to Islam’ story.

To view the full interactive video, please click on the speech bubble icon next to the time code (00:21:49). You can add comments and tags at specific points on the video by mousing over the large white and gray circle. A green ‘plus’ icon will show, click on that to add your comments and tags. You can mouse over the small black and gray dots on the progress bar to see comments and tags from others.

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I would like to thank Sidi Feraidoon Mojadeddi for inviting me for the interview. I would also like to thank Sidi Fahim Mojadeddi for taking care of me during the interview. Most importantly, I would like to thank my wonderful Su for her support, patience, love and companionship.

I have been invited to speak on Falah TV tonight. The channel executive producer asked me to discuss my conversion to Islam and my path since then. The program starts at 7pm PST. Here is some info about Falah TV:

Falah TV’s English program is dedicated to preserving and disseminating traditional Islam to the worldwide audience. It provides a colorful array of programs covering classical subjects like Qur’an, Hadith, and Fiqh, as well as contemporary issues. While the views reflected are primarily that of mainstream western Muslims, the programming appeals to Muslims everywhere. Our intent is to attract a strong viewership of both Muslims who are practicing and seeking appropriate programs for their families, as well as those who may have become wayward and are no longer practicing their Deen. It is our hope to provide programs that will educate them in the fundamentals of Islam.

Falah TV is a subsidiary of Noor TV.

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Alltop News is a new project spearheaded by Guy Kawasaki that showcases news from different topics and categories. Each topic showcases the top sites/blogs on one page, what they call ’single-page aggregation’. You can find out more about Alltop here.

Muslim.Alltop.com delivers news from different sites that are either authored by Muslims or sites that posts news about Muslims and Islam. This is a great resource to find out what the pulse is on the minds of Muslims across the world.

After sending a tweet to Guy, he graciously added IslamCrunch to Muslim page. Plus, he placed us in the #2 position of the page! Thanks Guy! This is a case of: “Tweet, and you shall receive.”

Also check out Guy’s book, Art of the Start. A good read to start any project, business or partnership. I am currently reading this book, a gift from our friend, Khadija O’Connell of Barakah Life.

We would like to thank the Radical Middle Way team for adding the IslamCrunch feed to their blogroll. We are honored to be a part of this prestigious organization.

The Radical Middle Way has just relaunched with a new look and plenty of new features.

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This summer, Zaytuna Institute presents an 8 week long intensive program to teach the Arabic language.

 Zaytuna Summer Arabic Intensive : A Complete Immersion Experience

Zaytuna has gathered some of the best Arabic language teachers in the West to teach this program:

• Abdullah Ali
• Dawood Yasin
• Usama Canon
• Khalil Moore
• Nethal Abdul-Mu’min
• Qari Amar Bellaha

Read their bios here:  http://arabicintensive.org/faculty.html

There will be some enrichment lectures conducted by:

• Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, “Secrets of Arabic Vocabulary Acquisition”
• Imam Zaid Shakir, “The Role of Arabic in the Islamic Sciences”
• Dr. Hatem Bazian, “The Arabic Roots of Al-Quds (Jerusalem)”
• Ustadha Intisar Rabb, “Authenticating Qur’anic Texts and Variant Readings”
• Dr. Sulayman Nyang, “The Impact of Arabic in Africa”
• Dr. Khalid Blankinship
• Dr. Kenneth Honerkamp

Bios here: http://arabicintensive.org/lectures.html

Basing their program on the “Complete Immersion Experience”, students will be living in the Westminster House in Berkeley, where they have the option of completely immersing themselves in a Arabic-only environment or a partial Arabic environment (Elementary Arabic level).

We are pleased to announce that our parent company, MQu.be, designed and developed the site. We are honored to have Zaytuna as one of our esteemed clients.