Saida Miller Khalifa is an author and

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. She was born Sonya Miller in Great Britain and converted in 1959. She met her husband, an

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ian professor named Yusry Khalifa, a year later after having taken the name ''Saida''. They both went on the

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in 1970, three years after moving to

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. Saida then published a short narrative of the trip entitled ''

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''. Currently out of print, ''The Fifth Pillar'' is reprinted in

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