Asra Nomani is an Indian American author. Born in India to Muslim parents, she earned a BA from West Virginia University in liberal arts in 1986 and an MA from the American University in international communications in 1990. She subsequently worked as a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal with her colleague Daniel Pearl in Pakistan post-9/11. Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by Islamist terrorists while following an investigative lead. Nomani later became the co-director of the Pearl Project, a faculty-student investigative-reporting project which has looked into Pearl’s murder.

Nomani is the author of three books: 

• Standing Alone: An American Woman’s Struggle for the Soul of Islam
• Tantrika: Traveling the Road of Divine Love
• Woke Army, the Red-Green Alliance that is Destroying America’s Freedom