Earlier this year, Graeme Wood was invited to appear on an Egyptian program called "Court of the Scholars," where he posed challenging questions to an expert in Muslim theology. Here are some highlights from that conversation.
Also see Graeme Wood's piece "My Conversion Will Not Be Televised" in the November Atlantic.
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Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, a former senior editor at The Atlantic, is now a senior editor at Smithsonian magazine.