Dimeo, David: - David DiMeo is an associate professor and director of the Arabic program at Western Kentucky University and has taught Arabic for over twenty years. He holds a PhD from Harvard University and an MA from Princeton University. He is the author of Committed to Disillusion: Activist Writers in Egypt from the 1950s to the 1980s and co-author of The Travels of Ibn Battuta: A Guided Arabic Reader (both AUC Press, 2016), and hosts the podcast The Golden Age of Islam.