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  Di Toft

  Di Toft was born in the black and white olden days of 1958, in Watford, Herts. A move to Somerset ten years later reinforced her love of the countryside and animals.
  
  At school, she bribed friends to read her early stories, which were usually about vampires or ponies, or people being electrocuted in the bath. Some stories featured vampires and ponies, which wasn’t always a popular combination.
  
  During the long hot summer of 1975, Di left school to find most of the best jobs were being done by other people. Her varied career has led to jobs in advertising, sales, and watching people dig holes in the road. She has also edited publications as well as written editorial and advertising features for newspapers and magazines. Although a very early a

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  David S. Landes

  David S. Landes was a professor emeritus of economics at Harvard University and retired professor of history at George Washington University. He is the author of Revolution in Time, The Unbound Prometheus, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, and Dynasties. Such works have received both praise for detailed retelling of economic history, as well as scorn on charges of blatant Eurocentrism, a charge he embraces explicitly, arguing that an explanation for an economic miracle that happened originally only in Europe must of necessity be a Eurocentric analysis.
  
  Landes earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1953 and an A.B. from City College of New York in 1942.
  
  -Wikipedia
  
  

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  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Randa Abdel-Fattah was born in Sydney in 1979. She is a Muslim of Palestinian and Egyptian heritage. She grew up in Melbourne and attended a Catholic primary school and Islamic secondary college where she obtained an International Baccaularetate. She studied Arts/Law at Melbourne University during which time she was the Media Liaison Officer at the Islamic council of Victoria, a role which afforded her the opportunity to write for newspapers and engage with media institutions about their representation of Muslims and Islam.
  
  During university and her role at the ICV, Randa was a passionate human rights advocate and stood in the 1996 federal election as a member of the Unity Party-Say No To Hanson. Randa has also been deeply interested in inte

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  Khaled Fahmy

  A specialist in the social and cultural history of nineteenth-century Egypt, Khaled Fahmy teaches modern Middle eastern and North African history at Tufts University.

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  Basma Abdel Aziz

  Basma Abdel Aziz has a BA in medicine and surgery, an MS in neuropsychiatry, and a diploma in sociology. She works for the General Secretariat of Mental Health in Egypt's Ministry of Health and the Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture.
  
  Abdel-Aziz gained second place for her short stories in the 2008 Sawiris Cultural Award, and a 2008 award from the General Organisation for Cultural Palaces. Her sociological examination of police violence in Egypt, Temptation of Absolute Power, won the Ahmed Bahaa-Eddin Award in 2009.
  
  Her debut novel Al-Tabuur [The Queue] was published in 2013, and Melville House published an English translation by Elisabeth Jaquette in 2016.
  
  In 2016 she was named one of Foreign Policy 's Leading Global Th

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  Ferdinand Oyono

  Ferdinand Léopold Oyono was an author from Cameroon whose work is recognized for irony that shows how easily people can be fooled. Beginning in the 1960s, he had a long career of service as a diplomat and as a minister in the government, ultimately serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1992 to 1997 and then as Minister of State for Culture from 1997 to 2007.
  
  Oyono's novels were written in French in the late 1950s and were only translated into English a decade or two afterward.
  
  
  
  

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  Alaa Al Aswany

  علاء الأسواني
  
  Alaa al-Aswany (Arabic: علاء الأسواني‎), Egyptian Arabic (Masri) "علاء الاسوانى" (born 1957) is an Egyptian writer, and a founding member of the political movement Kefaya.
  
  Trained as a dentist in Egypt and Chicago, it took him 9 years to earn his degree from Chicago National University where he spent 17 years in his life, al-Aswany has contributed numerous articles to Egyptian newspapers on literature, politics, and social issues. His second novel, The Yacoubian Building, an ironic depiction of modern Egyptian society, has been widely read in Egypt and throughout the Middle East. It has been translated into English, Danish, Finnish, French, Norwegian, Greek and Dutch, and was adapted into a film (2006) and a television series (2

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  Iman Mersal

  Iman Mersal is the author of four books of poems in Arabic: Ittisafat (Characterisations), 1990; Mamarr Mu‘tim Yasluh li Ta‘allum al-Raqs (A Dark Alley Suitable for Dance Lessons), 1995; al-Mashy Atwal Waqt Mumkin (Walking As Long As Possible), 1997; and Jughrafia Badila (Alternative Geography), 2006.
  
  Mersal was born in 1966 in Mansoura, Egypt. She was an editor for the cultural and literary reviews Bint al-Ard and Adab wa Naqd in Egypt for several years before leaving for North America.
  
  Mersal relocated to Boston, Massachussetts, USA in 1998 and from there to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada where she now resides with her husband, the ethnomusicologist Michael Frishkopf, and their two sons. She works as assistant professor of Arabic literature at

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  Juan R.I. Cole

  John Ricardo I. "Juan" Cole (born October 23, 1952) is an American scholar and historian of the modern Middle East, Islam and South Asia. He is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. As a commentator on Middle Eastern affairs and US politics, he has appeared in print and on radio and television, and testified before the United States Senate. He has published many books on the modern Middle East and has translated Kahlil Gibran and Omar Khayyam. Since 2002, he has written a weblog, Informed Comment (juancole.com).

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  Stanley Lane-Poole

  Stanley Lane-Poole was a British orientalist and archaeologist.
  Poole was from a famous orientalist family as his paternal grandmother Sophia Lane Poole, uncle Reginald Stuart Poole and great-uncle Edward William Lane were famous for their work in this field.
  His other great-uncle was Richard James Lane, a distinguished Victorian lithographer and engraver.
  He worked for the British Museum from 1874 to 1892.

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  Joe Queenan

  Joe Queenan is a humorist, critic and author from Philadelphia who graduated from Saint Joseph's University. He has written for numerous publications, such as Spy Magazine, TV Guide, Movieline, The Guardian and the New York Times Book Review. He has written eight books, including Balsamic Dreams, a scathing critique of the Baby Boomers, Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon, a tour of low-brow American pop culture and Imperial Caddy, a fairly scathing view of Dan Quayle and the American Vice-Presidency.
  
  Queenan's work is noted for his caustic wit.
  
  

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  David DeGrazia

  David DeGrazia is an American moral philosopher specializing in bioethics and animal ethics. He is Professor of Philosophy at George Washington University, where he has taught since 1989.

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  James Cañón

  "Cañón’s strong and simple writing, which is touched by humor and magic realism, never falters.”
  — The New Yorker
  
  James was born and raised in Colombia. After majoring in Advertising in Bogotá, he moved to New York to study English. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University.
  His debut novel, Tales from the Town of Widows & Chronicles from the Land of Men, has been published in over twenty countries. It won Le Prix du Premier Roman Étranger 2008 (Best First Foreign Novel Prize) and Le Prix des Lecteurs Vincennes 2008, and was a finalist for both the 2008 Edmund White Fiction Award, and a 2008 Lambda Literary Award for Best Debut Fiction. The American School Library Journal chose it as one of the “Ten Best Adult Books of

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  Mohamed Naeem محمد نعيم

  وُلِد محمد نعيم في عام 1977 بمدينة نصر شرق القاهرة لأسرة تهتمُّ بالشأن العام والثقافة كمعيارَيْن للجدارة الإنسانية. تخرَّج في كلية التجارة جامعة عين شمس، وعمل مُبكِّرًا في القطاع المالي والمصرفي داخل وخارج مصر. يُصنِّف نفسه شيوعيًّا منذ سِنِّ السابعة عشرة. هاجر في منتصف عشرينيَّاته إلى أستراليا، وفي بداية ثلاثينيَّاته عاد منها إلى مصر قبيل ثورة يناير 2011، حيث استأنف نشاطه السياسي والفكري والكتابي في عددٍ من الصُّحف والمواقع الإلكترونية. لم يَعُد له موطن مُحدَّد منذ منتصف ثلاثينياته، حيث يعيش بين أربع قارَّات، وستِّ دول، أو إحدى عشرة مدينة، وسبعة عشر منزلًا، أو أكثر.

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  Robert McNamara

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  Khaled Mansour

  Khaled Mansour is an independent writer and consultant on issues of human rights, humanitarian aid, and development. He served for thirteen years in the United Nations including for Unicef, peacekeeping missions, and the World Food Programme. He also led the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights in 2014.

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  Peter Gran

  Peter Gran is professor of history at Temple University. He is the author of Islamic Roots of Capitalism: Egypt, 1760-1840 and Beyond Eurocentrism: A New Modern World History, both published by Syracuse University Press.

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  Zeinab Abul-Magd

  
  Georgetown University, Department of History, Washington, DC PhD, July 2008 (focusing on socio-economic history)
  American University in Cairo, Egypt
  Research Fellow at Economic and Business History Research Center; Summer 2005 - Fall 2006
  
  Georgetown University, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Washington, DC MA in Arab Studies, Thesis in Islamic Law, May 2003
  
  Cairo University, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo, Egypt
  
  MA in Political Science candidate, 1997-2001
  
  Cairo University, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo, Egypt
  
  B.S. in Political Science, 1992-1996
  
  
  
  
  

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