BARBARA NIMRI AZIZ

27 May, 1940

B. Nimri Aziz completed her PhD in Social Anthropology at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London, UK and worked for two decades in her initial fields of expertise -- Tibet and Nepal. Three books and scores of scholarly articles resulted from that career. In 1989 Aziz took up journalism, focusing on Iraq and The Palestinian lands, again publishing widely from her observations there as well as neighboring countries. Her work has appeared in national newspapers as well as in magazines and in anthologies. In 1992 she founded the Radius of Arab American Writers Inc.

• Swimming Up the Tigris