Aymann Ismail

Aymann Ismail is a senior writer at Slate and the author of Becoming Baba: Fatherhood, Faith, and Finding Meaning in America. His work explores American Muslim life, family, faith, masculinity, politics, and the stories people inherit about belonging. The son of Egyptian immigrants, Ismail writes from the tension between inheritance and reinvention: what we receive from our parents, what we resist, and what we pass on. He lives in New Jersey with his family.