Jonathan Curiel is a journalist in San Francisco and the author of Al’ America: Travels Through America’s Arab and Islamic Roots (The New Press). As a reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle, he has had his journalism on Arabs and Muslims honored by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He has taught as a Fulbright scholar at Pakistan’s Punjab University and researched the history of Islamic architecture as a Thomason Reuters Foundation Research Fellow at England’s Oxford University. He lives in San Francisco, California.