Carolyn Baugh, a native of Indiana, studied Arabic and Arab literature at Duke University, graduating summa cum laude. She spent her junior year abroad studying at the American University in Cairo. She rowed crew for AUC on the Nile, where she met her husband, a member of the Egyptian National Crew team. They live with their two daughters in Philadelphia.

Ms. Baugh is now in her fourth year of the Ph.D. program in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania, where her focus is gender issues in Islamic law.

Books by Carolyn Baugh

The View from Garden City

by Carolyn Baugh