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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Awais Khan
Awais Khan is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and Durham University. He has studied Creative Writing at Faber Academy in London.
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He is the award-winning author of the critically acclaimed IN THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS (published by Simon & Schuster, Isis Audio and Hera Books) and NO HONOUR (published by Orenda Books).
He has appeared on BBC World Service, Dubai Eye, Voice of America, Cambridge Radio, City42, PTV Home, Samaa TV, Indua TV etc. His work has appeared in The Aleph Review, Missing Slate, The Hindu, Daily Times and other publications.
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Samuel Noah Kramer
Dr. Samuel Noah Kramer, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania, 1929; born Simcha Kramer), was a historian, philologist, and Assyriologist, particularly renowned as an expert in the language and history of Sumer. He was Clark Research Professor Emeritus of Assyriology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was also Curator Emeritus of the Tablet Collections.
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Dr. Kramer is often credited with the virtual creation of Sumerian cuneiform literature as an academic field, in which he wrote some 30 books for both academic and popular audiences. was a member of the American Oriental Society, Archeological Institute of America, Society of Biblical Literature and American Philosophical Society, which awarded him its John Frederick Lewis Prize. -
Ibrahim Nasrallah
Ibrahim Nasrallah (Arabic: إبراهيم نصرالله), the winner of the Arabic Booker Prize (2018), was born in 1954 to Palestinian parents who were forcibly displaced from their land in Al-Burayj, Palestine in 1948. He spent his childhood and youth in a refugee camp in Jordan, and began his career as a teacher in Saudi Arabia. After returning to Amman, he worked in the media and cultural sectors till 2006 when he dedicated his life to writing. To date, he has published 15 poetry collections, 22 novels, and several other books. In 1985, he started writing the Palestinian Comedy covering 250 years of modern Palestinian history in a series of novels in which each novel is an independent one; to date 13 novels have been published in the framework of th
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Alaa Al Aswany
علاء الأسواني
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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 -
Basem Khandaqji
Basem Khandaqji (Arabic: باسم خندقجي) is a Palestinian writer, journalist, and prisoner, was born in 1983. His novel A Mask, the Color of the Sky won the Arabic Booker Prize in 2024.
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He has studied at An-Najah National University and Al-Quds University. He was arrested by the Israeli defence forces on November 2, 2004, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He has published several novels, poems, and studies from prison.
باسم خندقجي، كاتب وشاعر فلسطيني من مواليد 1983. درس في جامعة النجاح الوطنية في قسم الصحافة والإعلام. اعتُقِل من قبل قوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلية في 2004، وحكم عليه بالسجن مدى الحياة.
له عدة روايات ودواوين شعر كتبها من داخل السجن.
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Pietro Bartolo
Dr. Pietro Bartolo, OB-GYN (M.D., University of Catania), is a physician who runs the only medical clinic on the Italian island of Lampedusa, closer to Tunisia than to Sicily. In 2019, he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament.
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Bothayna Al-Essa
Bothayna El Essa (Arabic: بثينة العيسى) is a novelist from Kuwait. A well-known author in modern Arabic literature, her novel The Book Censor's Library was longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction in their category for translated literature.
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Yahya Al-Sinwar
Arabic profile: يحيى السنوار
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Yahya Sinwar (1962–2024), one of the leaders of Hamas, was elected as the head of the movement’s political bureau after the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh on August 6, 2024. He held this position until his martyrdom. Israel considered Sinwar one of the main planners of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on October 7, 2023. Sinwar also led the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip since February 2017.
Sinwar was born on October 29, 1962, in Khan Younis refugee camp in southern Gaza. His parents were originally from Ashkelon and were forced to flee during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the occupation of their lands. He earned a bachelor's degree in Arabic language from the Islamic University of Gaza.
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Elizabeth Enslin
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Elsa Hart
Elsa Hart is the author of three acclaimed mystery novels set in eighteenth-century China. The most recent, City of Ink, was one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2018. The daughter of a journalist, Elsa was born in Rome and spent much of her childhood abroad, attending international schools in Moscow and Prague. She is drawn to stories about travelers throughout history, and likes to put her own characters in places that are unfamiliar to them.
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Shilpi Somaya Gowda
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Shilpi was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. She spent a college summer as a volunteer in an Indian orphanage, which seeded the idea for her first novel and the transition from a business career to a becoming a writer: Secret Daughter was an IndieNext Great Read, a Target Book Club Pick, an Indigo Heather’s Pick, and an Amnesty International Book Club Pick. It was a finalist for the South A -
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Fozia Raja
Fozia Raja is an author, creative writer, and corporate Human Resources professional working for a multi-national company. She was born and brought up in Manchester, UK, where she has fond memories of pursuing her passion for reading - carrying a heavy backpack to the local library each Saturday to pick out her next seven books for the week ahead.
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She was brought up in a close family with four siblings and she pursued her fascination with her family’s history. This included vivid childhood memories of the stories shared by her grandmother about her surviving the partition of India. For hours, Fozia would listen to these historical narratives in rapt attention – motivating her later in life to complete a master’s degree in Creative Writing. -
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Susanne Pari
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Susanne's first novel, The Fortune Catcher, told the story of a young woman—American and Iranian, Jewish and Muslim—caught in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution. It has been translated into six languages. Her second novel, IN THE TIME OF OUR HISTORY, is about a large immigrant family grappling with the future of their traditions as the -
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Born at New Delhi, she worked in the corporate sector for eight long years before Tanushree quit the rat race to wield her pen and found her calling.
A well know travel writer and novelist, she is also known for the hundreds of ‘Middles’ that entertained readers of almost all English dailies in the country for over a decade. Tanushree is passionate about travelling and writing. If the lady is not packing her bags to zip around the world, she is sure to be found tapping the keys of her computer.
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Henry de Vere Stacpoole
Henry De Vere Stacpoole (9 April 1863 – 12 April 1951) was an Irish author, born in Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire). His best known work is the 1908 romance novel The Blue Lagoon, which has been adapted into feature films on three occasions.
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A ship's doctor for more than forty years, Stacpoole was also an expert on the South Pacific islands. His books frequently contained detailed descriptions of the natural life and civilizations with which he had become familiar on those islands.
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Jean Sasson
Jean Sasson was born in a small town in Alabama. An avid reader from an early age, she had read all the books in her school library by the time she was 15 years old. She also began her book collection at age 15. When given the chance to travel, Sasson accepted a position at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Riyadh, and lived in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for 12 years. She traveled extensively, visiting 66 countries over the course of 30 years.
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Jean started her writing career in 1991 when she wrote the book, THE RAPE OF KUWAIT. The book was an instant best-seller, reaching #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. When the Kuwaiti Embassy in Washington heard that soldiers sent to free Kuwait did not know why they we -
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His debut memoir, Orphan of Islam (HarperCollins, 2012), broke new ground by giving voice to a story few dared to tell. Deeply personal and powerfully honest, it struck a chord with readers from all walks of life and continues to resonate to this day.
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Sabyn Javeri
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Faiqa has an MFA in creative writing with a distinction and Best MFA Thesis Award from Kingston University London. She has an MA in Gender Studies from Birkbeck University London. She also holds an MA in English Literature and an -
Debra Dean
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A native of Seattle, Debra lives in Miami and teaches at Florida International University. She loves to talk with book groups. You can find her at https://www.debradean.com and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/debradeanauthor. -
Cengiz Dağcı
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9 Mart 1919 tarihinde Kırım’ın Yalta şehrinin Gurzuf köyünde doğar. Çocukluğu kıtlık, yoksulluk, Rus emperyalizminin zulmü ve büyük baskılar altında geçer. İlkokulu köyünde, ortaokulu Akmescit'te bitirir. Kırım Pedagoji Enstitüsü ikinci sınıfında iken İkinci Dünya Savaşı çıkar. 1941’de Ukrayna cephesinde Almanlara esir düşer. Almanların yenilmesi üzerine esir kampından kurtularak müttefik devletler safına sığınır. 1946’da Londra’ya yerleşir. İngiltere’deki hayatı da hiç kolay olmaz; bir taraftan yazarken en vasıfsız ve ağır işlerde çalışmak zorunda kalır.
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Anne Cherian
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Roopa Farooki
Roopa was brought up in London and graduated from New College in Oxford in 1995. She worked in advertising and it 2004 quit to write full time. She now lives in south east London and south west France with her husband and two sons. Bitter Sweets is her first novel and in 2007 it was nominated for the Orange Award for New Writer.
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Rahul Saini
Rahul Saini is the bestselling author of seven hugely popular books – Those small Lil’ Things, Just like in the Movies, The Orange Hangover, Paperback Dreams, Just For You and most recently, Love to Hurt You and The Part I Left With You. His book, Paperback Dreams, created a lot of buzz and raised many questions about the current scenario of the publishing industry in India. All his books have featured in various bestselling lists across the nation.
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His books have strong comic tones and present the up-beat stories that portray the fun loving, free spirited and the outgoing character of today’s youth. Apart from being light entertainers, his books carry relevant social messages. His first book has also been
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Tales of the Witching Hour is situated in the 1980’s. He chose this era for two distinct reasons; he grew up in the 80’s and more specifically, he relies on the uniqueness and mystery surrounding life before the digital age. The book is a collection of four stories, titled: The Man in the Fedora Hat, The Red Balloon, The Typewriter, and The Whispering Room.
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Sheila Flaherty
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Khwaja Hasan Nizami
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have once again articulated the claim of Baba Nanak's Muslim identity was the
noted Delhi-based Muslim scholar, Khwaja Hasan Nizami (1879-1955). A learned
Sufi and a prolific writer, Nizami hailed from a family of hereditary custodians of
the shine of the renowned and widely-venerated Chishti mystic, Khwaja
Nizamuddin Auliya in Delhi. Nizami's principal biographer, Mulla Wahidi, writes
that he had over five hundred books on an amazing variety of subjects to his
credit (quoted in Naqvi, 1978). A major concern in his writings was the defence
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Qais Akbar Omar
Qais Akbar Omar (first name pronounced "Kice") is the author of A Fort of Nine Towers, which has been published in more than twenty languages, and the co-author of A Night in the Emperor’s Garden, which has been dramatized by BBC Radio. He has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Sunday Times, The Boston Globe, The Globe and Mail, The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, and he has published essays and short stories in The Southern Review, AGNI, The Hopkins Review, The Markaz Review, Guernica, Arrowsmith, Literary Hub, American Chordata, and elsewhere.
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Theresa Shea
Theresa Shea's third novel, Dog Days of Planet Earth, will be out fall 2026 with ECW Press. Her second novel, The Shade Tree, won the 2020 Guernica Prize and the 2022 Alberta Book Award. The Historical Novel Society named it an Editors' Choice: "Mesmerizing, engrossing, and brilliantly plotted, this is an achievement that will echo long after the last page is turned."
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Shea's debut novel, The Unfinished Child,, dramatically explores the moral challenges that result from the increased scientific interventions into human reproduction. It was a finalist for the Alberta Book Award (2014), the Alberta Readers' Choice Award (2014), and the BookBundlz "Book Pick" Contest (2013).
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Lynne Hugo
Lynne Hugo is an American author whose roots are in the northeast. A National Endowment For The Arts Fellowship recipient, she has also received repeat individual artists grants from the Ohio Arts Council and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Her publications include eight novels, one volume of creative non-fiction, two books of poetry and a children’s book. She lives with her husband, a former Vice President for Academic Affairs of a liberal arts college and now a professional photographer, in the Midwest. They have two grown children, three grandchildren, and a yellow Labrador retriever.
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Ms. Hugo has taught creative writing to hundreds of schoolchildren through the Ohio Arts Council’s renowned Arts in Education program. She holds a Bachel -
Maya Shanbhag Lang
Maya Shanbhag Lang is the author of What We Carry: A Memoir, (Random House, April 2020), a New York Times Editor's Pick and one Amazon's Best Books of 2020. She is also the author of The Sixteenth of June (Scribner), long listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and a Finalist for the Audie Awards for Best Audio Book. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, In Style, and others.
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Winner the 2017 Neil Shepard Prize in Fiction and the 2012 Rona Jaffe Foundation-Bread Loaf Scholarship in Fiction, she was a Finalist for Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers.
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Deborah Waffle
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Raza Mir
Raza Mir is the author of Ghalib: A Thousand Desires, The Taste of Words: An Introduction to Urdu Poetry and the co-author of Anthems of Resistance: A Celebration of Progressive Urdu Poetry. He can be reached at urduwallah@gmail.com
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Joe Samuel Starnes
Joe Samuel “Sam” Starnes is the coauthor of Leth Oun's life story, A Refugee's American Dream: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S. Secret Service, published in print in 2023 by Temple University Press and as audiobook by Tantor Media. The audiobook, narrated by Tim Lounibos, was honored as a finalist in the 2024 Audie Awards. His first novel, Calling, was published in 2005, and was reissued in 2014 as an e-book by Mysterious Press.com/Open Road. NewSouth Books published his second novel Fall Line in November 2011, and it was selected to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s “Best of the South” list. Red Dirt: A Tennis Novel, published in 2015, is his third novel. He has had journalism appear in The New York Times, The Washington Po
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Bryan Mooney
I write stories that I feel strongly about and hope that my readers will feel touched by as well. I write in different genres because the stories I feel cross all barriers.
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Love Letters- If you found a love letter in an old book, would you read it? Love Letters is the story of what happens when a woman finds a series of love letters hidden in some books she bought at a flea market. She reads them and wishes she could find the doctor who wrote them to thank him. One day she does and her life is never the same.
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Al-Kindi
Abu Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī (c. 801–873 AD) was Arab Muslim philosopher, polymath, mathematician, physician and music theorist. Al-Kindi was the first of the Islamic peripatetic philosophers, and is hailed as the "father of Arab philosophy".
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