Name: Kareem Salama

Birthplace: Ponca City, Oklahoma

Home: Richmond, Texas

Hobbies and Interests: Swimming, boxing, playing the guitar, writing music, currently working on a novel, reading just about anything, politics, southern geography, constitutional law, entrepreneurship, theology, trap shooting, sitting outside preferably near water, recently taken an interest in horses (want to have one eventually and name her Bella)…

Interesting fact: When I was 12 years old I was one of the best .22 high caliber rifle shooters in the state of Oklahoma

Favorite Reading: The Shield and the Cloak, How Free Can Religion Be, Anything by Emerson, Fragments, Letters of a Sufi Master, The Essential America, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Arabic Interest of the Natural Philosophers in Seventeenth Century, Anything by John Makdisi, Al Hikam, Maqamat Al Hareeri, Anything by Imam Al Ghazali, The Natural Child, If God is Love, Ornament of the World, Our Endangered Values, Understanding Islam, What Southern Women Know...

Favorite Theatrical Play: The Candy Man. When I was 8 my mother made me go with her to see it and I slept through the whole thing. It was great!

Favorite Movies: Braveheart, The Goonies, North and South

Favorite Artists: Tim McGraw, Andy Griggs, Goo Goo Dolls, John Denver, Garth Brooks, currently really like The Fray

Favorite Food: My mother’s Fried Fish with hot sauce and Sweet Corn

Favorite Sports Teams: University of Oklahoma Sooners and the Auburn Tigers

Inspiration: All the great men and women throughout the ages