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Mustahid Husain, author of Double Truths, has a diverse career spanning energy, telecom, international banking, and international development. Born in Bangladesh and having lived in the U.S. and Canada, his global experiences deeply infl uence his multicultural approach to writing.

Sandy McCutcheon, author of Creation Game, is a New Zealander but lived most of his adult life in Australia as an author, playwright, actor, broadcaster and journalist. He has written twenty plays and a number of novels, including Black Widow (2006) which won the Christina Stead Award for Literature, and The Magician’s Son (2005), an autobiographical work on the true nature of his ancestry. He currently resides in Morocco where he has close ties with a Sufi brotherhood, and has a large following on his website ‘Th e View from Fez’ which he run with his wife, the photojournalist Suzanna Clarke.

Scott Kugle, author of The Merciful Door, serves as Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, USA. His fields of expertise include Sufism, Islamic society in South Asia, and issues of gender and sexuality. He is the author of seven books, including Sufis and Saints’ Bodies: Corporeality and Sacred Power in Islam, When Sun Meets Moon: Eros, Ecstasy and Gender in Urdu Poetry and Sufi Meditation and Contemplation.

A world traveller, Shueyb Gandapur has visited more than a hundred countries. He hails from Dera Ismail Khan and lives between Dubai and London. A chartered accountant by profession, he writes about his travels occasionally and paints in his free time. This is his first travel memoir.