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As well as being the author of Letters to a Young Muslim,
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Omar Ghobash, UAE Ambassador to Russia, wrote Letters to a Young Muslim from a desire to prevent his son from succumbing to the perils of radicalisation. The book has won critical acclaim for its message, which resonates with today’s youth.
If the level of publicity and media attention associated with the launch of a book is any measure of its success, then Omar Saif Ghobash, the UAE Ambassador to Russia, has every reason to be pleased.
Even before his Letters to a Young Muslim was published in January, Time magazine billed it as one of this year’s most anticipated books, alongside non-fiction works such as a memoir by transgender media celebrity Caitlyn Jenner and the latest novel by Paula Hawkins, author of the best-selling Girl on a Train.
Written by the 45-year-old diplomat as a series of informal letters to his teenage son, Saif, Letters to a Young Muslim can be seen as part of a literary tradition that extends back to Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet (1929).
It also includes more recent examples, such as Christopher Hitchen’s epistolatory blueprint for debate and dissent, Letter to a Young Contrarian (2001), and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ exploration of what it means to be black and American, Between the World and Me (2015).
"It has been very interesting. I’ve spent a long time thinking about these issues and I’ve been very pleased with the response," says Mr Ghobash.
"The worst thing would have been if it had fallen flat, but the international response has been great."
Far from falling flat, the book has been reviewed by The New York Times and The Times of London and has earned Mr Ghobash an in-depth profile in the London newspaper, The Guardian, and appearances on CNN and National Public Radio, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and the long-running PBS current affairs programme, Charlie Rose.
"People talk about a clash between civilisations but I actually think there is a clash within our own civilisation and within our own Islamic community," Mr Ghobash told Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham on a recent episode of the show.
"I think that’s particularly worrisome, but also tantalising in a way. There are 1.7 billion Muslims, and the kinds of ways that we discuss ideas hasn’t really progressed in the sense that there is a tremendous amount that is kept under wraps."
The issue of language is central to Mr Ghobash’s analysis of the issues confronting Islam and the contemporary Arab world and provided him with the immediate inspiration for Letters to a Young Muslim, a project born of his desire to prevent his son from succumbing to the risks associated with radicalisation.
"I was listening to my kids coming back from their Arabic lessons and I thought, ‘This is terrible, nothing has changed in the last 30 years’."
"Soon, you were coming back from school telling me what I had to do to be a ‘good Muslim’. You became a little aggressive and I began to realise that your mother and I were not the only ones bringing you up," Mr Ghobash writes in his book.
"I had images of you running away to Syria, where people would exploit your good nature. I imagined you cutting yourself off from us, your family, because we were not strict enough Muslims according to the standards that you had picked up from these so-called teachers of yours."
When his son brought home a book about Osama bin Laden and started to express respect for the founder of Al Qaeda and to defend some of his actions, he knew as a father that he had to act and his book is part of his response.

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