Zora O’Neill is the author of All Strangers Are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World, winner of the Lowell Thomas Award for best travel book of 2016.
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Zora has also written travel guides, a cookbook and a craft book on the world’s writing systems (more here), and her essays and reported stories have been published in The New York Times, New Yorker, USA Today, Parnassus: Poetry in Review and many other outlets (more here).
She is interested in travel in its broadest sense: encounters and explorations near and far, vacation and migration, communication failures and successes. Zora grew up in New Mexico and has lived in Queens, New York, since 1998.
Available for lectures, interviews, Q&As, book club visits by Zoom
- Contemporary culture of the Arab world
- Refugees in Europe
- Women’s travel
- Language study for adults
