Born in 1979, when Islamic revolution reconfigured the region, and trained as a community doctor on the Saudi/Yemeni border, Ahmed Mater has risen to become one of the most significant Arab artists...
Richard Astro began college at Oregon State University and has been in universities ever since as a graduate student, a faculty member, and an academic administrator. His training is in American li...
Kati Marton is the author of True Believer: Stalin’s American Spy; Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; The Great Escape: Nine Jews ...
Jack Mitchell is a Stanford-educated poet and scholar who has taught at Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and is currently associate professor of Classics at Dalhousie University. He is based...
The reputed author of both the Odyssey and its prequel, the Iliad, is the enigmatic Greek poet Homer. Although no biographical details have been discovered, he is believed to have been an historica...