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William Hoffer

William Hoffer has been spinning out international best-sellers for more than 20 years.
He collaborated with Billy Hayes to chronicle the exciting escape from a Turkish prison in Midnight Express, which was later produced into an Academy Award-winning motion picture starring Brad Davis, John Hurt and Randy Quaid.
William and his wife Marilyn worked with Betty Mahmoody to write Not Without My Daughter, the story of Betty and her daughter’s desperate and dangerous escape from Iran. The book became a stunningly successful international phenomenon, and was produced into a motion picture starring Sally Field and Alfred Molina.
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Daphne Scholinski

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Deborah Rodriguez

Deborah Rodriguez is a hairdresser, a motivational speaker, and the author of the bestselling memoir Kabul Beauty School.
She spent five years teaching at and later directing the Kabul Beauty School, the first modern beauty academy and training salon in Afghanistan. Rodriguez also owned the Oasis Salon and the Cabul Coffee House.
She currently lives in Mexico.

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Somaly Mam

Somaly Mam is a Cambodian author and human rights advocate who focuses primarily on sex trafficking.

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Qanta A. Ahmed

Dr. Qanta Ahmed (MD, FCCP, FAASM) is one of the top multi-disciplined physicians and medical specialists in the country—licensed in both the United States and the United Kingdom. She is an educator, consultant, researcher, guest lecturer at medical universities and sought-after speaker at medical conferences.

Among her many honors, Dr. Ahmed has served as Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine, Diplomat of the American Board of Pulmonary Medicine, and Diplomat of the American Board of Critical Care Medicine. She was also named a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians.

A British born Muslim woman, Qanta was educated and trained in both London and New York City. Her considerable intellect, burgeoning achievements and u

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Keema Waterfield

Keema Waterfield was born in a trailer in Anchorage, Alaska the year John Lennon was shot, smallpox was officially eradicated, and the first Iran-Iraq War began. Her award-winning essays have appeared in Brevity, Pithead Chapel, and Redivider, among others. She received her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Montana. She now resides in Missoula, Montana, where she plays music for kicks and occasionally moonlights as a standup comic. She lives with her husband, two children, a bunch of extra instruments she doesn’t know how to play, and a revolving cast of quirky animals. She lives and writes on Séliš and Qlispé land. Follow her on Twitter @keemasaurusrex.

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Molly Wizenberg

I started out as a food writer focused on home cooking, using food as a lens for peering into everyday life and relationships. I was interested in people, in how we find and make meaning for ourselves. I still am. My latest book, The Fixed Stars, is a memoir about sexuality, divorce, and motherhood. I wrote it because, in my mid-thirties, nearly a decade into marriage and newly a mother, I lost track of who I was. I wrote because I wanted an answer; in the process, I came to find that I liked the company of questions. The Fixed Stars will be published by Abrams Press on May 12, 2020.

I am also the author of A Homemade Life (Simon & Schuster, 2009) and Delancey (Simon & Schuster, 2014). Both were New York Times bestsellers. Before all that, I

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Julia Legian

My name is Julia Legian (aka Loan Thi Nguyen). I was born in 1972, South Vietnam. Or was it 1971? Nobody really knows so I prefer to err on the young side. In the 80s my family fled Vietnam as “boat people” and immigrated to Australia.

I'm happily married to my husband, Simion, and I have a wonderful, kind, and loving son, Jeremy.

I'm not a professional writer, just an ordinary person with an extraordinary story I'd like to share with the world.

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Stephanie A. Collins

I am a busy mother of 4, a loving wife, and an unsuspecting author of a true medical drama/unconventional love story called With Angel's Wings. With Angel's Wings is my story. I wrote therapeutically as I was introduced to/initiated into life as a special needs mother. Years later friends, therapists, and nurses convinced me to share my tale. All names were changed in the book, out of respect for those who would not appreciate being mentioned by name, but aside from names, the story is 100% true. If, after reading With Angel's Wings, you are left with questions, please do not hesitate to ask. On the book's website (www.withangelswings.net) there is an "Ask the Author Forum", and all questions and feedback are more than welcome. Also on the

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Zana Muhsen

Zana Muhsen is a British author who has written about the experiences that she and her sister, Nadia (born 1966), went through when they were sent from their birthplace in Birmingham, England to Yemen in 1980 on a purported holiday to meet the paternal side of their family, but sold unaware into marriage in by their father, Muthanna Muhsen, a Yemeni émigré.

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Daya Daniels

Lover of words. Poetry glutton. Cynic. Idealist. Art collector. Lip gloss addict. Wife. Mommy. NERD. Madwoman. Music fan. Book whore. Beach bum. Water rat. Wine drinker. Bermudian. Las Vegas resident-wannabe. Hopeless romantic.

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Carmen Bin Ladin

Carmen bin Ladin, born Carmen Dufour, in Geneva, Switzerland, is a member of the bin Laden family. She was raised in Lausanne by her mother only in Switzerland with three little sisters (Salomé, Béatrice, and Magnolia). Her father is Swiss (Dufour) and her mother Persian (Mirdoht-Sheybani).

Carmen (56 years old) was married to one of Osama bin Laden's older brothers, Yeslam bin Ladin, until 1988. They were married in 1974 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She has three daughters, Wafah Dufour (born 1975), Najia (born 1978), and Noor (born 1987).

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Knud Holmboe

Knud Valdemar Gylding Holmboe (April 22, 1902 Horsens Danmark - October 13, 1931 Aqaba Jordan) was a Danish journalist and explorer who converted to Islam after travels in North Africa. Born in Horsens he travelled to Morocco as a young man, in order to familiarize himself with Islam and learn the Arabic language.
Upon his conversion, Holmboe changed his name to Ali Ahmed. Driving through the Sahara in an old Chevrolet, he left the beaten track to discover the communities and landscape of the desert. Knud Holmboe was shocked to observe European violence against the indigenous populations of the North African colonies. Based on these travel experiences, he produced a book in 1931 entitled Desert Encounter (Danish: Ørkenen Brænder), in which h

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Ingrid Betancourt

Former Colombian politician, mostly known for being kidnapped by the FARC.

Was voted in the Colombian congress in 1998 and was kidnapped by the FARC in 2002 during her presidential campaign until she was freed in 2008.

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Khaled Hosseini

Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. In 1970 Hosseini and his family moved to Iran where his father worked for the Embassy of Afghanistan in Tehran. In 1973 Hosseini's family returned to Kabul, and Hosseini's youngest brother was born in July of that year.
In 1976, when Hosseini was 11 years old, Hosseini's father obtained a job in Paris, France, and moved the family there. They were unable to return to Afghanistan because of the Saur Revolution in which the PDPA communist party seized power through a bloody coup in April 1978. Instead, a year after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in 1980 they sought political asylum in the United States and made their residence in San Jose, California.
Hosseini graduated from Independence Hi

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Azar Nafisi

Azar Nafisi, Ph.D. (Persian: آذر نفیسی) (born December 1955) is an Iranian professor and writer who currently resides in the United States.

Nafisi's bestselling book Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books has gained a great deal of public attention and been translated into 32 languages.

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Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard (born April 30, 1945) is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Dillard taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut.

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Malika Oufkir

Malika Oufkir (Arabic: مليكة أوفقير) (born April 2, 1953) is a Moroccan writer and former "disappeared". She is the daughter of General Mohamed Oufkir and a cousin of fellow Moroccan writer and actress Leila Shenna.

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Betty Mahmoody

Betty Mahmoody (born June 9, 1945) is an American author and public speaker best known for her book, Not Without My Daughter, which was subsequently made into a film of the same name. She is the President and co-founder of One World: For Children, an organization that promotes understanding between cultures and strives to offer security and protection to children of bi-cultural marriages.

Her book, Not Without My Daughter, is an account of her experiences in 1984–86, when she left Alpena, Michigan to go to Iran with her husband and daughter for what she was promised would be a short visit. Once there, she and her daughter were held against their wills.
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Carmen Bin Ladin

Carmen bin Ladin, born Carmen Dufour, in Geneva, Switzerland, is a member of the bin Laden family. She was raised in Lausanne by her mother only in Switzerland with three little sisters (Salomé, Béatrice, and Magnolia). Her father is Swiss (Dufour) and her mother Persian (Mirdoht-Sheybani).

Carmen (56 years old) was married to one of Osama bin Laden's older brothers, Yeslam bin Ladin, until 1988. They were married in 1974 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She has three daughters, Wafah Dufour (born 1975), Najia (born 1978), and Noor (born 1987).

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Khushwant Singh

Khushwant Singh, (Punjabi: ਖ਼ੁਸ਼ਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ, Hindi: खुशवंत सिंह) born on 2 February 1915 in Hadali, Undivided India, (now a part of Pakistan), was a prominent Indian novelist and journalist. Singh's weekly column, "With Malice towards One and All", carried by several Indian newspapers, was among the most widely-read columns in the country.

An important post-colonial novelist writing in English, Singh is best known for his trenchant secularism, his humor, and an abiding love of poetry. His comparisons of social and behavioral characteristics of Westerners and Indians are laced with acid wit.

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Deborah Rodriguez

Deborah Rodriguez is a hairdresser, a motivational speaker, and the author of the bestselling memoir Kabul Beauty School.
She spent five years teaching at and later directing the Kabul Beauty School, the first modern beauty academy and training salon in Afghanistan. Rodriguez also owned the Oasis Salon and the Cabul Coffee House.
She currently lives in Mexico.

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Molly Wizenberg

I started out as a food writer focused on home cooking, using food as a lens for peering into everyday life and relationships. I was interested in people, in how we find and make meaning for ourselves. I still am. My latest book, The Fixed Stars, is a memoir about sexuality, divorce, and motherhood. I wrote it because, in my mid-thirties, nearly a decade into marriage and newly a mother, I lost track of who I was. I wrote because I wanted an answer; in the process, I came to find that I liked the company of questions. The Fixed Stars will be published by Abrams Press on May 12, 2020.

I am also the author of A Homemade Life (Simon & Schuster, 2009) and Delancey (Simon & Schuster, 2014). Both were New York Times bestsellers. Before all that, I

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Dalia Grinkevičiūtė

Dalia Grinkevičiūtė (1927–87) was born in Kaunas, the former capital of Lithuania. She spent her teenage years in a Siberian gulag. At twenty-one she escaped and returned to her home country only to be deported to Siberia once again in 1951. She was released five years later, then studied medicine. Grinkevičiūtė’s writings are now placed firmly in the Lithuanian canon.

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Anne Michaud

Anne Michaud is the politics editor for Crain's NY Business and a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal. She previously wrote a nationally syndicated op-ed column for Newsday and was twice named "Columnist of the Year," by the New York News Publishers Association and the New York State Associated Press Association. She has won more than 25 writing and reporting awards.

"Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives" (Ogunquit Press, March 2017) has won multiple national book honors, including in the categories of Women’s Issues and Current Events. A second edition, updated to include Donald and Melania Trump, was published in 2021, along with an e-book, "American Czarina." Details available at annemicha

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Nadia Hashimi

Reader, Mom, Pediatrician, Author, Advocate, Dog Walker (only my own, no solicitations please.)

Loves dark chocolate, coffee, and many other clichéd indulgences.

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Kotryna Zylė

Kotryna Zylė (b. 1986) is an award-winning author, illustrator, and designer of books. Zylė’s books are often rooted in Lithuanian mythology or include allegorical reflections on key issues in life that will delight readers.

Kotryna was born and raised in Vilnius, Lithuania, and studied at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. While still a student, she began to dive into the visual communication of cultural heritage and became interested in Lithuanian mythology. In 2012, she began writing and illustrating children’s books and ever since her love of children’s literature, illustration, and mythology has been a source of inspiration for new books and projects.

She co-organises literature events and festivals, leads creative workshops and writes litera

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Nadia Murad

Nadia Murad Basee Taha (Sorani Kurdish: نادیە موراد باسی تەھا‎; Arabic: نادية مراد باسي طه‎; born 1993) is a German-based Yazidi-Iraqi human rights activist. She was kidnapped and held by the Islamic State for three months. In 2018, she and Denis Mukwege were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict." She is the first Iraqi to be awarded a Nobel prize.

Murad is the founder of Nadia's Initiative, an organization dedicated to "helping women and children victimized by genocide, mass atrocities, and human trafficking to heal and rebuild their lives and communities."

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Aimee Cabo Nikolov

Aimee Cabo Nikolov is a Cuban American who has lived most of her life in Miami. She is a speaker, trained nurse and the president and owner of IMIC, Inc, a medical research company in Palmetto Bay.
Aimee is also the host of "The Cure with Aimee Cabo", a nationally syndicated live radio show, and later a podcast. https://godisthecure.com

She lives with her husband, Dr. Boris Nikolov, and two of her children, Sean and Michelle. This is her first book. The book won several awards - Pinnacle, NYC Big book award, Feathered Quill Gold/1st place.
The Second book is inspired by her work at the radio show and is a compilation of Christian poems based on popular songs.

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Sheridan Brown

Sheridan Brown holds advanced degrees in school leadership and is a certified teacher, principal, and educational leader. Having minored in music in college, the arts have always been a central force in her life.

Ms. Brown was born in Tennessee and raised in small towns of southwest Virginia. She practiced her profession in Virginia, Massachusetts, and Florida. Upon retirement she began volunteering, painting, writing, researching, and traveling with her husband, attorney John Crawford. She has one son, Tony Hume. She is GiGi to Aiden and Lucy. She has returned to the Blue Ridge to live and explore.

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Juozas Gaižauskas

Lietuvos aktorius, rašytojas, prodiuseris, renginių ir TV laidų vedėjas, dainų kūrėjas ir atlikėjas.

Juozas Gaižauskas gimė 1968 m. balandžio 18 d. Tauragėje (mama Valerija Gaižauskienė – anglų kalbos mokytoja, tėtis Juozas Jokūbas Gaižauskas – žurnalistas, 2015 m. rugsėjo 18 d. apdovanotas Lietuvos žūvančiųjų gelbėjimo kryžiumi). Turi tris brolius (Zigmas, Vytautas, Kęstutis) ir seserį (Birutė). Seneliui Juozui Gaižauskui ir močiutei Stanislavai Gaižauskienei 2019 m. suteikti Pasaulio tautų teisuolių vardai ir 2015 m. rugsėjo 18 d. apdovanoti Žūvančiųjų gelbėjimo kryžiais. 1996 m. susituokė su Agne Dalia Gaižauskiene ir 1997 m. susilaukė dukters Gabrielės.

Mokėsi Tauragės 4-oje vidurinėje mokykloje (dabar – Tauragės Žalgirių gimnazija). 198

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Banu Mushtaq

Banu Mushtaq (ಬಾನು ಮುಷ್ತಾಕ್, born 1948) is an activist, lawyer and writer from the southern Indian state of Karnataka. She writes in the Kannada language and her works have also been published in Urdu, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and, most recently, English.

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Phyllis Chesler

Phyllis Chesler is an Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at City University of New York. She is a best- selling author, a legendary feminist leader, a psychotherapist and an expert courtroom witness. Dr. Chesler has published thousands of articles and, most recently, studies, about honor-related violence including honor killings. She is the author of 20 books, including Women and Madness and An American Bride in Kabul. Her forthcoming book is titled Requiem for a Female Serial Killer, about serial killer Aileen Wuornos.

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Melanie Lutz

Melanie Lutz is a writer and love activist living in Los Angeles, California.

For more information check http://www.melsloveland.com and http://www.alwaysalice.com

Melanie has been putting on shows and sharing stories since before she can remember. She enjoys sarcasm as a tool in the arsenal against ignorance, loves the inherent complexity of a simple idea, hates apathy and violence, relishes a good old fashioned fish fry, and sings and dances to musical theater songs as often as possible.

Melanie believes we heal through storytelling. Her company, Always Alice, creates projects that bridge the worlds of art and commerce, meaning and media.

Melanie's acclaimed memoir, THE BARE MELCESSITIES takes readers on a spiritual journey of self discovery

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Davinder Kaur

Davinder Kaur was born and raised in Bradford, England. She briefly lived in Denmark and traveled Australia for a year before moving to the United States in the early 1990s. She earned her bachelor’s degree at the age of forty while working full time and raising her three children who are her pride and joy.

She enjoys cooking and traveling, loves cruises, and her two favorite places thus far are Italy and London. You can find Davinder on Twitter or Instagram @luchanik or visit her website at https://luchanik.com.

Davinder is the survivor of a forced marriage. Forced to Marry Him: A Lifetime of Tradition and the Will to Break It is her first book.

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Anna Erelle

Anna Erelle is the pseudonym of a thirty-something French journalist who has written for major newspapers and magazines in France.

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George Jonas

George Jonas (born June 15, 1935) is a Hungarian-born Canadian writer, poet and journalist. Describing himself as a classical liberal, he is the author of 16 books.

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Alex Fletcher

Alex has lived and worked in Africa, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia, and they now reside in Michigan. Alex currently teaches ESL. In their spare time, Alex and his wife Liz enjoy hiking and camping in national parks with their two kids and golden retriever.

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Anne Schreiber Thomas

Anne Schreiber Thomas grew up in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. She holds a B.A. in Geography (Earth Sciences) from Sonoma State University, and an M.S. in Geography from the University of Nevada, Reno. Ms. Thomas has lived in several San Francisco Bay Area cities, as well as Abu Dhabi. She has been a teacher, conservation project manager, and sailmaker, among other things. When she isn’t traveling or sailing, she lives with her husband in Gardnerville, Nevada. Visit her author page on Facebook @wildcardtravels and her blog, with stories about sailing and travel adventures, at wildcardtravels.blogspot.com.

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D.A. Lee

D.A. Lee is a Bangladeshi-born British author, artist and poet, best known for her novel 'Written' published in 2019. Raised in a small town in Lancashire, England, Lee describes the cultural challenges of growing up in a Bengali household whilst navigating a western world.

Lee's novel, whilst fictional, draws on many of her own experiences of growing up in a Muslim family and explores the underworld of cultural expectations, arranged marriages, honour, abuse and domestic violence that often limit women's choices.

Lee first started writing as a form of self-healing through the challenges of home life. The word 'Written' had become a poignant theme throughout the book, a word often expressed culturally to describe the notion of determinism an

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Ann Campanella

Ann Campanella is a former magazine and newspaper editor. She is the award-winning author of three memoirs and four collections of poetry. Her writing has appeared in newspapers, magazines, literary journals and online sites across the country and around the world, and she has been a guest on many podcasts.

Her first memoir, Motherhood: Lost and Found, named "One of the best Alzheimer's books of all time" by BookAuthority two years in a row, tells the story of her mother’s descent into Alzheimer’s at the same time Ann was trying to become a mother and dealing with a series of miscarriages.

After her book was released, Ann became a manager and director of AlzAuthors, an organization that represents hundreds of books about Alzheimer’s and dem

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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

A professional writer for more than forty years, Yarbro has sold over eighty books, more than seventy works of short fiction, and more than three dozen essays, introductions, and reviews. She also composes serious music. Her first professional writing - in 1961-1962 - was as a playwright for a now long-defunct children's theater company. By the mid-60s she had switched to writing stories and hasn't stopped yet.

After leaving college in 1963 and until she became a full-time writer in 1970, she worked as a demographic cartographer, and still often drafts maps for her books, and occasionally for the books of other writers.

She has a large reference library with books on a wide range of subjects, everything from food and fashion to weapons and tr

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Denise Jackson

Denise Jackson is a former teacher and flight attendant who married country superstar Alan Jackson in 1979 at the age of 19. Denise is credited with getting Alan a recording contract after she met country legend Glen Campbell at an Atlanta airport. Denise and Alan separated after 18 years of marriage in 1997, but reconciled after four months. They are committed to their relationship and to their faith in God. They have three daughters and live outside of Nashville. Denise is also a cancer survivor.

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Fatema Mernissi

AKA فاطمة المرنيسي

Mernissi was born into a middle-class family. She received her primary education in a school established by the nationalist movement, and secondary level education in an all-girls school funded by the French protectorate. In 1957, she studied political science at the Sorbonne and at Brandeis University, where she earned her doctorate. She returned to work at the Mohammed V University and taught at the Faculté des Lettres between 1974 and 1981 on subjects such as methodology, family sociology and psycho-sociology. She has become noted internationally mainly as an Islamic feminist.

As an Islamic feminist, Mernissi was largely concerned with Islam and women's roles in it, analyzing the historical development of Islamic thought

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Arthur Graham

Arthur Graham writes and edits for a living. Cofounder and former head editor of Rooster Republic Press. Current Editor in Chief of Horror Sleaze Trash.

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J.R. Roth

JR Roth is an author, commentator and satirist. He has written for various publications on topics as diverse as politics, history, literature, economics and popular culture. He is celebrated for his witty and often controversial style.
JR is a graduate of Oxford University. He currently lives between London and Dubai, and enjoys reading, art, music and the theatre.
You can follow JR on Twitter @Jrroth_author and on Facebook.

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Zvezdana Rashkovich

Zvezdana Rashkovich was born in the former Yugoslavia and spent her childhood in Libya and Sudan before moving to the United States.

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