View My Photo Bio Click first photo to activate slider… Raised in California [My dad and me – with mom taking the photo] Majored in History at Stanford Trained as a journalist in Chicago Interned with AP in Cairo [View from the AP office] [Out with the AP Photo Team, blending in with a headscarf] [Post-Ramadan Prayers] [First glimpse of the pyramids] [Giza, #pyramidsnotsoremote] Wrote about universities in DC Studied Arabic in Damascus [Bab Touma, Old City] [Ring Road] [Umayyad Mosque] [Shrine of Sayyidah Zaynab, Damascus suburbs] On the way out of Syria… Fell in love with Lebanon… Moved to Beirut [Political posters – everywhere] Wrote and broadcast about war… [Protest in Martyrs’ Square] …and peace [Tripoli, northern Lebanon] …and beauty [Mount Lebanon, south of Beirut] [Beiteddine Palace] [Raouché, Beirut] Wrote my first book! Moved back to Washington, DC Wrote another book (with dad) Assistant Directed two plays… …with No Rules Theatre Co. Moved to New York City Made my NYC playwright’s debut Wrote a novel Fell in love …and became a voice actor! Contact Me [caldera_form id=”CF5d3b58873bf56″] Photo Credit: Dario Acosta