![]() ![]() After she became a journalist for the opposition weekly Cairo Magazine, through Omar's family she was able to interview Sheikh Ali Gomaa, the Mufti of Egypt, becoming the first Westerner to do so. Soon after moving to Cairo to teach English, she met her future husband Omar Haggag. ![]() She converted to Islam soon after graduating from college while on a plane to Cairo, according to her memoir. Raised atheist, in high school and college she explored her spirituality, studying everything from neo-Paganism to Islam. When she was 19, she interned at Komikwerks, an online comics publisher founded by Shannon Denton. ![]() She attended Boston University, where she earned her degree in History and took classes in Arabic language and literature. Wilson was born New Jersey in 1982 and was raised in Colorado. ![]()
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