ABSTRACT
Following institutional ethics approval in January 2015, Muna Saleh contacted several friends and colleagues from her work as a teacher and community volunteer to assist her in inviting participants to the inquiry. Muna worked with a Muslim mother as part of her dissertation's narrative inquiry study. Muna recounts the way the interview process can create the occasion for surprising revelations within an interviewee's family and community. She also reflects on concerns about the way the Western emancipatory discourses can oversimplify the lives of Muslim women, framing them as exotic, weak, and oppressed and obscuring their dignity, independence, and bravery. Ayesha and Zahra were the first daughter and mother pair who reached out to express an interest in participating. Muna's first phone call with Ayesha in early February 2015 planted the seeds for over two years of relationally living and inquiring alongside one another.
