by Adam Soltani | The Oklahoman | May 1, 2022 | In The News
The year I turned 17, I approached the holy month of Ramadan with both excitement and anxiety as a new Muslim. Although the physical difficulty of fasting — refraining from eating or drinking from dawn to sunset — became easier, the spiritual trial of improving my...
by Adam Soltani | Jun 28, 2021 | In The News
Note: CAIR-OK Director Adam Soltani was among the honorees. Read below for details in video clip and excerpt from article in The Journal Record. OKLAHOMA CITY – The Journal Record celebrated the 12th class of Oklahoma’s Most Admired CEOs & Financial Stewardship...
by Adam Soltani | Good Faith Media | Jun 17, 2021 | In The News
I was born in 1983, raised in the shadow of the Iranian hostage crisis by an Iranian Shia Muslim father and a white Catholic American mother – unique circumstances in the Kansas town of my early childhood. For much of my life, as an adolescent and a young adult, I...
by Adam Soltani | The Frontier | Jan 24, 2020 | Blog
In 2010, I was 27 years old and had just embarked upon a new chapter in my life: a Master’s degree program, my recent marriage to the love of my life, and a new career. I was not, nor had I ever been, truly concerned with issues related to politics or my own...
by Adam Soltani | Tulsa World | May 4, 2019 | In The News
In August 1958, Clara Luper and 13 other members of the NAACP Youth Council walked into Katz Drug Store in Oklahoma City and ordered hamburgers and sodas. Not only were their requests refused, but because it was an all-white establishment, they were also asked to...
