Case Study: The Tenth Parallel
The Tenth Parallel is the horizontal band that rings the earth 700 miles north of the equator and has one of the fastest growing populations in the world. Climate change is particularly impactful on this ecologically sensitive region. Christianity and Islam have shared a tumultuous history here for 1,500 years. What will happen in the tense Tenth Parallel as it continues to grow and heat up?
An award-winning writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, Eliza Griswold latest book is The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line between Christianity and Islam.