Mr Sawma’s Sharia law expertise is by virtue of experience and study: Every Middle East law school makes the study of Sharia law mandatory. He is also the author of The Quran: Misinterpreted, Mistranslated And Misread, a fascinating and riveting examination of the origins of the Quran from a linguistic (and subsequently, cultural) point of view. Sawma posits that the Quran was written in Aramaic and not Arabic. Subsequent efforts to ‘force a square peg into a round hole’ have resulted in the severing in the roots of the Quran