Dr.
Swami D Francis, Ph.D., born in Nagercoil, Kanyakumari District, South India,
Swami Dhason Francis has a Ph.D degree in Biblical Interpretation. His earlier
works 'The Iago Trial' [2010], a novel, 'The Betrayed Disciple' [2013], a play
on Judas Iscariot, and 'Unshackling an Apostle' [2014] a research work on The
Bible, and 'The Imperial Inquest' [2015] testify that he embellishes his
writings with rare details from literary classics, ancient history, traditions,
legends and mythologies. He has also written over a dozen plays in Tamil. He is
at present in Libya teaching English literature in Al-Margeb University,
Khomes. He is currently working on his new novel 'The Samson Prism' with the
February Seventeen Libyan Revolution as its background.
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Dr. Bashir Al-Roubi, Ph.D., born in Shafeien, Mesalatta, Libya, Bashir Al-Roubi, working in Al-Margeb University since 2006, is the former Head, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Science, Mesalatta of Al-Margeb University. He has a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics with the title (An investigation of Socio-Metacognitive Reading Strategies and Reading Comprehension among Libyan EFL Tertiary Learners) from Omdurman Islamic University Sudan.