Born in 1965 in Bombay, India, she came to the United State at the age of four not knowing any English. She was raised in the foothills of West Virginia in Morgantown, W.V. As editor of her high school newspaper at Morgantown High School, she had an early appreciation for journalism.Also, Asra Q. Nomani is a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal for 15 years, is the author of “Standing Alone: An American Woman’s Struggle for the Soul of Islam.” Starting in August 2007, she will be a visiting scholar in the practice of journalism at Georgetown University, leading the Pearl Project, a faculty-student investigation into the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. She currently lives in Morgantown, W.V., with her son Shibli.
