Mark Juergensmeyer is director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies and professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Ashapurna Debi was born in 1909. Her conservative family did not send her to school, but encouraged by her mother, she learnt to read and write on her own and published her first poem in the childrenâ
Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian novelist and poet. Her most recent novel, The Blue Between Sky and Water (Bloomsbury, 2015), is an international best seller, translated into 28 languages.
