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American-born Jemil Metti lived in the Middle East between 1956 and 1970, mostly in Iraq.Growing up in upper middle class Baghdad neighborhoods, he was raised in an environment of social harmony among Muslim, Christian and Jewish neighbors. However, the unrelenting prevalence of dictatorial and discriminatory governments since the downfall of Iraq’s monarchy in 1958 encouraged Metti’s decision to return to the U.S.There, his international studies at Northern Illinois University, and State University of New York in Binghamton triggered his attraction toward electronic and print journalism for almost ten years.But as immigrants from the Middle East to the U.S. witnessed a significant jump during the 1970s and 80s, so did the need for bilingual and ESL educators. Taking advantage of a fellowship offer, he was able to complete his doctoral studies in education at Wayne State University.He has been an ESL coordinator, instructor and a community college adjunct professor of political science for a combined education career lasting almost forty years. Metti is the author of an autobiography, Perception Wars: Iraq from the outside In and his first novel, The Pahlavi Sword.He’s currently working on a third novel.