Carla Power is an author and journalist. Her first book, If the Oceans Were Ink, a memoir of studying the Quran with Sheikh Akram Nadwi, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She was raised in St. Louis, Missouri, with years in Iran, India, Afghanistan, Egypt and Italy. She began her career as a writer and foreign correspondent for Newsweek Magazine, and since then, her reportage and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Time, The New York Times Magazine, Foreign Policy, Vogue, Vanity Fair and The Guardian. She lives with her family in East Sussex. She will be discussing her new book "Home, Land, Security."