David DiMeo

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.

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. See less