Sally Bishai is a writer and journalist who founded X Culture Magazine in January, 2004, Photo X Quarterly in January, 2005, and Copt-X Quarterly in January, 2006.

She has been published in numerous newspapers, websites, and magazines, including the Arab Herald, the Middle East Star, Copts.com, Copts-United.com, American Copts, Coptic Digest, Google News Roundup, the USA Sentinel, the Daley Times-Post, and the American Daily, for which she is a daily columnist.

Sally is Egyptian American (or, more specifically, Coptic) and loves to tell people what that means.

She is an ardent campaigner for human rights, as well as the idea that all Egyptians should stick together, rather than pulling out labels which only serve to divide the population.

Sally is also an author. Her previous non-fiction titles include Mid-East Meets West: On Being and Becoming a Modern Arab American, and Date like An Egyptian: The Egyptian's Guide to Finding a Mate...Or Date" (hit the "Books" section to check them out).

In addition to writing, Sally is very passionate about the visual arts, and has directed three documentaries until now; they include "Back To Square One? Fifty Years After Emmett Till," "Strange Behaviour: How Westerners Feel About Gender Roles in the Middle East," and, most recently, "Children of Kemet: The Copts, Culture and Democracy of Egypt."
 

Sally is also the host of her own television program, "Sally Bishai's 30 Minutes With...", which features (sometimes controversial!) interviews with the biggest names in Civil Rights, in Coptic rights, in HUMAN rights. The program can be found on various college and cable-access channels across the States, as well as Channel X, an online "television" station.

Sally's blog, "The AntiSocialite," holds information about current projects, as well as impassioned articles about politics, current headlines, the trouble with society, and many other things that will probably end up getting her in lots of trouble.

Sally's Bachelor's of Science was in psychology, but her Master's and the Ph.D. she's currently working on are in speech and intercultural communication. She teaches various classes at the university level, and finds time to lecture (off-campus) about her books, her culture, and other controversial topics.

Finally, Sally has worked in radio (international and "domestic"), fashion photography, and narrative film. Her current narrative project deals with religious persecution, including that of Egypt's Copts, which, if you'll remember, she happens to be.