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Gregory Orfalea teaches Arab American literature at Georgetown University. He is the author of Angeleno Days: An Arab American Writer on Family, Place, and Politics, to appear in spring 2009 from the University of Arizona Press. A collection of his short stories, The Man Who Guarded the Bomb, is also forthcoming.