Nesreen Khashan and Jim Bowman (Eds.)
A Palestinian-American born in Kuwait and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Nesreen Khashan has for the past decade been a frequent traveler to the Middle East. Whether to the Palestinian territories and Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt or Morocco, each of her trips has been marked with special purpose and has carried with it one or more of her passions. She has ventured to the region as spiritual pilgrim, journalist, scholar, Arabic student, and serendipitous traveler. Currently a curriculum writer in Washington, D.C., Nesreen also teaches classes in the Department of Global Studies at Mission Community College near San Jose, CA. She holds a Master's degree in Near Eastern Studies from The University of Arizona and is proficient in Modern Standard Arabic and the Egyptian and Levantine dialects. Earlier in her career, she worked as a newspaper writer for six years, reporting for The Salt Lake Tribune, the South-Florida Sun-Sentinel, The Boston Globe, and The Daily Star of Lebanon, among others.
Jim Bowman has developed his understanding of the Middle East through years of living in Turkey, traveling through the region, and now studying about the Middle East from afar. He is currently at work on a doctoral dissertation about Turkey and travel writing. Though he would like to spend more time in the Middle East, he settles for annual returns to the region in order to lead cultural tours of Turkey and Cyprus, brush up on his ever-rusting Turkish, and visit old friends and beloved locales. His recent scholarly publications relating to the Middle East include essays about political memory in Cyprus and symbolic issues in the history of hookah smoking in Turkey. In addition to his interest in travel writing, he has also edited textbooks for composition students at the University of Arizona. He teaches and studies in the departments of English and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona.
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