Zain Christopher

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Gender	Male
Industry	Education
Occupation	Teacher
Location	Kobe, Japan
Introduction	Muslim, husband, reader, writer, hiker. Appreciator of life, creation and the Creator.
Interests	Din, fiqh, reading, writing, learning, biking, hiking, tea, travel, language, people, politics, NPR, philosophy, history, theology, thought, life...
Favorite Movies	The Hidden Blade, (隠し剣鬼の爪), Love & Honor, (武士の一分), Lion of the Desert, Princess Mononoke, (もののけ姫), The Battle of Algiers, Fires on the Plain, (野火), Departures, (おくりびと), Catch a Fire, 47 Ronin, (四十七人の刺客), Focus, Zatoichi, :, Kenka Daiko, (座頭市喧嘩太鼓), Malcolm X, Twenty-Four Eyes, (二十四の瞳), ...
Favorite Music	Yusuf Islam, Zain Bhika, Raihan, Grant Green, Gil Scott-Heron, Youssou N'Dour, Idris Muhammad, Bill Evans, John Coltrane...
Favorite Books	Islam- Fundementalism and the Betrayal of Tradition, by Joseph EB Lumbard (editor), Speaking in God's Name, by Khaled Abou El Fadl, Language and Politics, by Noam Chomsky, Declarations of Indepenence, by Howard Zinn, Ordinary Resurrections, by Jonathan Kozol, Being and Time, by Martin Heidegger, A People's History of the Supreme Court, by Peter Irons, Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Fermat's Last Theorem, by Amir Aczel