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Personality Karen Armstrong: A Profile in Literary Diversity By M. M. Ali February 1993, Page 38 Karen Armstrong, a prolific writer, television broadcaster and prominent figure on the London media scene, came to the Middle East by a circuitous route that began when she took the vows of chastity and poverty at age 17 and entered a Roman Catholic convent as a novice nun in 1965. Now among her ...