Mehded Maryam Sinclair has been telling stories for over twenty-five years, having begun her career as a touring- and teaching- artist with the Vermont Council on the Arts. She participated in the Literacy Project of the Vermont Council on the Humanities by creating and telling a version of Homer’s Odyssey in venues from the Vermont Correctional Centers to the Cabot Cheese Factory, plus schools, colleges, universities, museums, camps, and theaters in between. Mehded lived for ten years in Turkey, teaching language and storytelling to Turkish children. She translated The Tales of Nasreddin Hodja, illustrated by Ahmet Yakuboglu, published by the City of Konya, 1998.
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Promoting the continuous re-visioning of the world’s Islamic heritage to enrich the inner lives of adults and children and reawaken the oral tradition as an essential ingredient of our humanity.
Miraculous Happenings in the Year of the Elephant - Audio Book by Mehded Maryam Sinclair
True happenings, stranger by far than fiction, demonstrate that if Allah says “Be!” it is, it surely is.
The text was the 2005 Second Prize winner in the Islamic Foundation’s Writing for Children Contest, and is now in publication as an illustrated book, soon to be released.
