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Sarah Isaias

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SARAH ISAIAS is a family physician who, for the past 23 years, has worked in an inner-city clinic caring for the medically-uninsured. More recently, she has been drawn to the intensive study of religion, in particular the Abrahamic faith traditions, with the intention of making a contribution to interfaith efforts to foster peace and understanding between peoples. She recently received a masters degree in Jewish Studies, and is an avid scholar of Arabic, Hebrew, Torah, and Quran.

Her first novel, “A New Song,” is the creative synthesis of all of her studies: scientific, medical, religious and philosophic. Though structured as a compelling adventure story, it is, in truth, a powerful message of both the ultimate unity and the simultaneous and SARAH ISAIAS is a family physician who, for the past 23 years, has worked in an inner-city clinic caring for the medically-uninsured. More recently, she has been drawn to the intensive study of religion, in particular the Abrahamic faith traditions, with the intention of making a contribution to interfaith efforts to foster peace and understanding between peoples. She recently received a masters degree in Jewish Studies, and is an avid scholar of Arabic, Hebrew, Torah, and Quran.

Her first novel, “A New Song,” is the creative synthesis of all of her studies: scientific, medical, religious and philosophic. Though structured as a compelling adventure story, it is, in truth, a powerful message of both the ultimate unity and the simultaneous and necessary plurality of humankind.

The book was the basis and inspiration for a romantic adventure movie titled "The Rendezvous," (see trailer at https://youtu.be/jsrIAj-ZiyI), directed by Amin Matalqa (Captain Abu Raed), and filmed on site at visually stunning locations in Jordan's Petra and Wadi Rum. It features "Homeland's" Raza Jaffrey and "Castle's" Stana Katic as an unlikely pair, an American Muslim member of the US state department and a Jewish physician from Los Angeles, who find themselves in a desperate battle to save the world from a new form of religious terrorism. The book is being re-released under the title, "The Rendezvous," in a beautiful new printed paperback volume that physically captures the aura and excitement of the film.

Sarah Isaias had the opportunity to travel with the production crew to Jordan to share in the excitement of filming, and to see her work come to life in the paradigmatic idiom of the Hollywood adventure movie, in the tradition of such classics as Lucasfilm's "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and Columbia Picture's "Da Vinci Code."

"A New Song" is the first book in a trilogy, which will follow the lives of the interfaith family she creates through adventures, challenges, and heartbreaks of modern times.

In addition to being a physician, student of religion, and novelist, Dr. Isaias is also a wife and mother of five grown children. She and her husband are expecting their first grandchild in spring of 2017. ...more

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My novel "A New Song" to be re-released February 15th, 2017

My novel, "A New Song," will be re-released under the title "The Rendezvous," in conjunction with the upcoming commercial premiere of the major motion picture of that name in spring of 2017. Inspired by the book and directed by Amin Matalqa, the movie stars "Castle's" Stana Katic and "Homeland's" Raza Jaffrey in a romantic adventure thriller that pairs an American Muslim U.S. agent with a Jewish p Read more of this blog post »

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Published on February 01, 2017 18:45 • Tags: castle, homeland, islam, jaffrey, judaism, katic, motion-picture, peace, raza, rendezvous, stana

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