David Bentley continues on a journey to meet Muslims in the United States that began with his family while serving in Jordanian and Iranian churches. His book The 99 Beautiful Names of God: For All the People of the Book (1999) was succeeded by Persian [email protected] (2000), an enactment of his walk with magi through bristling Middle East nations. He translated Priest and Prophet for a Lebanese author in 2005. A novel, Wedding Haircut: A Prenuptial Rite of Passage for 9/11 Terrorists (2011), redeems a groom in a global year of terror.
Brad Yonaka is a numismatic researcher and has written two books on Latin American coinage. He has lived and traveled extensively in Latin America and the Middle East, visiting locations of historical importance from ancient times onwards in the latter region. Professionally, he is an exploration geologist, working in mineral exploration. He is familiar with the places where gold and other metals were found and traded historically, and the metallurgy involved with the manufacture of coins.
