About the author, Linda Pappas Funsch
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Linda Pappas Funsch was introduced to the Middle East as a Junior Year Abroad student at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. After completing a B.A. from Marymount College, Tarrytown, N.Y., she earned an M.A. in Near Eastern Languages and Literature at New York University.
Ms. Funsch has worked for the Arab Information Center in New York as editor of The Arab World magazine; The Ford Foundation, in its Middle East regional office in Beirut, Lebanon; and as U. S. director of The American Research Center in Egypt, a consortium of major universities and museums.
She lectures throughout the Frederick County community and has taught courses in Middle Eastern and Islamic history at Mount St. Mary’s University, Frederick Community College and Hood College.
During the course of her career, Ms. Funsch has come to know the Middle East well, touring a wide variety of countries in the region. In 2005, she received a Joseph J. Malone Fellowship from the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations to visit, for the first time, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This month, she will return to the Sultanate of Oman, after an absence of more than 30 years, to observe the momentous changes that have taken place in that unique and distant land, as she explores both interior and coastal regions.
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