Sally Bishai

Sally Bishai is an Egyptian American writer who has covered Egyptian politics and issues, Egyptian American identity, the plight of the Copts and Arab-American representations; her journalistic work and op-eds have been widely published on English-language Western, Egyptian and Coptic websites and newspapers.
Her scholarly publications focus on gaming, identity, arranged marriages, sexuality and the Middle East. Her Master's thesis has split into the self-published books Mid-East Meets West and Date Like An Egyptian. She is editor of the independently-published electronic and print X Culture Magazine, which was founded in 2004.

Bishai holds an MA in Communication Art from the West Florida University and is a doctoral candidate at Florida State University. Her research interests are in communications theory.

Bibliography
*Mid-East Meets West—Covers the assimilation of Arabs and Egyptians into American culture.
*Date Like An Egyptian—A survey of Egyptian courtship and marriage practices.

Filmography
*Quest for Kemet.(Documentary, 121 minutes. Also titled "Children of Kemet II.")
*Sally Bishai's 30 Minutes With... (Weekly Online Program)
*Children of Kemet: The Copts, Culture, and Democracy of Egypt (Documentary, 72 minutes)
*Back To Square One? Fifty Years After Emmett Till (Documentary, 52 minutes)
*Strange Behaviour: How Westerners Feel About Gender Roles in the Middle East (Documentary, 30 minutes)

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