"Sono di una famiglia italiana" written by Allison DeWitt
Second Place Winner of the Hijabi Monologues Story Contest 2011

Told by Hijabi Monologues Creative Director Sahar Ishtiaque Ullah

Allison DeWitt was born in New Jersey.   Her father is from Brooklyn and her mother is from Little Italy. When she was two her family moved to New Hampshire, where she lived until she was eighteen. She converted to Islam in October 2008 after working at an Italian bakery with eight Muslim co-workers.

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