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Robina Williams is an English author.
Williams was born in a small village in Cheshire. She lives in Liverpool. She has an Honours degree in Modern Languages from Oxford University and a Master of Philosophy research degree in English literature from Liverpool University. Her research thesis was on the links between Wilkie Collins and nineteenth-century art. She enjoys looking at paintings and the plot of Jerome and the Seraph is arranged around a painting by Sir John Roddam Spencer Stanhope called "Thoughts of the Past".
Williams has been a schoolteacher, college lecturer, journalist and secretary.
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Camelia Suleiman is an American academic who currently serves as associate professor at Michigan State University. She has also served as the Academic Director of the school's Arabic Flagship Program (2012-2017) and led the Arabic Program from 2012 to 2020. She has published Language and Identity in the Israel-Palestine Conflict: The Politics of Self-Perception and The Politics of Arabic in Israel: A Sociolinguistic Analysis. Her third book is Arabic between State and Nation: Israel, the Levant and Diaspora.
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Rachel Swallow is an archaeologist specialising in the study of landscapes and castles. She was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2018. Swallow studied at Birmingham Polytechnic and the University of Liverpool before completing a PhD at the University of Chester in 2015. She is visiting research fellow and guest lecturer at the University of Chester and honorary fellow at the University of Liverpool.
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