Palestine

Sabri Bebawi

The middle of five children, Sabri Bebawi was born in 1956 in Fayoum, Egypt, where he attended law school at Cairo University. He then left Egypt for the United Kingdom. He was invited by Oxford University, where he spent some time, and never returned to Egypt. A few years later, after living and working in England, Italy, France, and Cyprus, he took refuge in the country he loved most, the United States. In California, he studied communications at California State University, Fullerton, and then obtained a master’s degree in English education. Later, he worked at many colleges and universities, teaching English as a second language, freshman English, journalism, and educational technology. He did further graduate work at UCLA and obtained a PhD in education and distance learning from Capella University. Although English is his third language, he has published many works in English on eclectic topics. His ambition has always been to write novels; this is his first attempt. As English is a foreign language to him, writing a book has been challenging. As a child, Bebawi struggled to make sense of religions and their contradictions; in fact, he grew up terrified of the word God. As he grew older and studied law and all the holy books, he developed a more pragmatic and sensible stance; the word became just that—a word.