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Danuta Borchardt is an award-winning translator from Polish to English. After a lengthy career in clinical psychiatry she turned to translation with an English edition of Witold Gombrowicz's novel *Ferdydurke*, for which she was awarded the National Translation Award in 2001, from the American Literary Translators Association. She has also written short stories, which have been published in *Exquisite Corpse*.

Michael Goldfarb has been one of public radio's most familiar voices from London: first as NPR's London correspondent and later bureau chief; then as the senior correspondent for the public radio program *Inside Out*. His book on the conflict, *Ahmad's War, Ahmad's Peace: Surviving Under Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq*, was named one of the *New York Times*' Notable Books of 2005. He has also received the Overseas Press Club's Lowell Thomas Award for Outstanding Radio Journalism, the duPont-Columbia Silver Baton and two Edward R. Murrow Awards.

Mary Karr is an award-winning poet and best-selling memoirist. She is the author of *Lit*, the sequel to her critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling memoirs *The Liars' Club* and *Cherry*. A sought-after speaker, Karr has given distinguished talks at prestigious universities, libraries, and writers' festivals, including Harvard University, Oxford University, Princeton University, Brown University, Syracuse University ("On Salmon Rushdie" with Salmon Rushdie), the New York Public Library, the Los Angeles Public Library, the Folger Library (Poetry Society of America/Emily Dickinson Lecture), The New Yorker Literary Festival, PEN/Faulkner, and the Festival of Faith and Writing.

Rana Husseini is a Jordanian journalist and human rights activist whose work focuses on social issues with a special emphasis on violence against women. She has received numerous awards for her reporting, including a medal from HM King Abdullah II of Jordan for her reporting on so-called crimes of honor. Through her work she helped form the National Jordanian Committee to Eliminate So-Called Crimes of Honor, and she has served as a regional coordinator with the United Nations Development Fund for Women's campaign to eliminate violence against women in five Arab countries.

Lidia Mattichio Bastianich is one of the best-loved chefs on public television, a best-selling cookbook author, restaurateur, and owner of a flourishing food and entertainment business. Her current PBS series, *Lidia's Italy*, has garnered numerous accolades, including the 2009 James Beard Award for Best Television Show. Her latest cookbook, the lushly illustrated *Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy*, complements the TV series and provides an appetizing look into the regional cooking of many lesser-known parts of Italy. Her previous public TV credits include *Lidia's Family Table*, *Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen*, and *Lidia's Italian Table*. A proud grandmother of five, Lidia's ebullient approach to life and cooking is summed in her signature line, "Tutti a tavola a mangiare!" or "Everybody to the table to eat!"

Professor Sanlikol received Berklee College of Music's Clare Fischer Award and completed his degree in Jazz Composition and Film Scoring in 1997. In the beginning of 1998 he released the CD *Black Spot* with the electric jazz ensemble AudioFact. In the year 2000 he graduated from New England Conservatory of Music with a Master's Degree in Jazz Composition. In the year 2003 Sanlikol has released the second CD entitled *Asitane*, with AudioFact and has taught in the theory and music history departments of New England Conservatory. In the year 2004 Sanlikol completed his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Composition at the New England Conservatory and founded the non-profit organization DUNYA along with Robert Labaree and Serap Kantarci Sanlikol. Since then he has produced over 70 concerts with DUNYA and released 6 CDs and a DVD. Recently, he is writing a book about the organization and the music of the Ottoman Janissary Bands and is teaching at Emerson College.

Professor Labaree is an ethnomusicologist specializing in Turkish music and medieval European music. As a founding member of the EurAsia Ensemble since 1980, he has performed and taught Turkish classical music across the US. His recordings with EurAsia Ensemble include *Eski Dunya ile Sohbet* (Conversations with the Old World), *Istanbul on the Charles*, and *Boston Sema*. His solo CD *Cengnagme* appeared in Turkey in 2001 on the Kalan label. He is the director of New England Conservatory's Intercultural Institute, which he founded in 1993. He also is the co-founder of DUNYA org.

Frederick S. Lane is an author, attorney, expert witness, and professional speaker on the legal and cultural implications of emerging technology. After graduating from Amherst College and Boston College Law School, he clerked for two years for the Honorable Frank H. Freedman, Chief Judge of the US District Court in Massachusetts. After practicing law for five years and writing mhis first book, *Vermont Jury Instructions: Civil and Criminal* (with John Dinse and Ritchie Berger), Lane launched a computer consulting business that in time led to his current work as a computer forensics expert and author. In response to the passage of the Communications Decency Act in 1996, Lane began researching the legislative and media response to the rise of the online adult industry. The resulting book, *Obscene Profits: The Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age*, was the first of what is now five mainstream non-fiction books. In addition to these books, Lane has written numerous magazine articles on a variety of topics, including constitutional rights (particularly freedom of speech), privacy online and in the workplace, the impact of technology on our rights and liberties, and the separation of church and state.