Our Staff
David Anthony Hohol
Born in Edmonton, Canada, RELATIVITY OnLine's Editor-in-Chief has a BA in English Literature from the University of Calgary and an MA in Creative Writing, with a specialization in biographical and auto-biographical research, from Warnborough College in Dublin, Ireland. Hohol has worked or studied in North American, Asian, Middle Eastern, and European circles of Education and has been a published writer since 2005. After several years in Japan, working in the city of Tokyo, he currently resides in Dubai, UAE, where he heads up the English Department at the Institute of Applied Technology. A visitor to more than forty countries, his global odyssey provides RELATIVITY OnLine with its grounding force of multiplicity.
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Divyaa Kummar
RELATIVITY OnLine’s own resident guru, Divyaa Kummar is a spiritual facilitator and fellow traveler for all those on the journey towards Self. A resident of Bombay, India she does not consider herself an academic, describing all she expresses as intuitive, rising from somewhere within her. Using words to take her readers beyond words, Kummar’s goal is to reach out with open arms through discourse, channeling, meditation and writing. Constantly awakening to her own infinite nature and sharing it with ‘other' aspects of Self, Kummar works towards discovery and awakening, each and every day. A graduate of Bombay’s Xavier College, Kummar runs her spiritual blog at www.divyaakummar.com
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Lute wa Lutengano
Born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Staff Writer Lute wa Lutengano is RELATIVITY OnLine's elder statesman. With his extensive international and humanitarian background, we count ourselves as priviledged to have him with us. Lutengano has a Bachelor's Degree in Literature and Thearte Arts from the University of Dar es Salaam and studied journalism at the University of Berlin in Germany. His diverse career includes stops in the feilds of marketing, public relations, and publishing, and he now works for the United Nation's Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. With his geopolitcal and media based background, Lutengano offers RELATIVITY OnLine a pure and well-seasoned perspective of our ever-changing world.
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Eman Al Nafjan
Born in Taif, Saudi Arabia, Staff Writer Eman Al Nafjan is the daughter of a Saudi Military Officer, moving often and throughout Saudi Arabia as a child. She later spent a significant portion of her childhood living in the United States. Al Nafjan has a BA in English Literature from the University of Riyadh and a Master's Degree from the University of Birmingham in England. Currently she is working towards a PhD in linguistics. Her exposure to both domestic and international plurality brings with it a multi-layered understanding of her own region and unique perspective of our world. More than anything, her varied background instills within her a deep-seeded interest in culture. A courageous and transparent writer who uses both humor and passion in her work, Al Nafjan offers RELATIVTY OnLine another unique perspective and further still, true insight into heart of the sometimes mysterious Gulf Culture of the Middle East. She also runs her own very enlightening blog at http://saudiwoman.wordpress.com/
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Dr. Ron Villejo
Born in the Philippines in the capital city of Manila, Staff Writer Dr. Ron Villejo moved with his family to the United States while still a boy and was raised in the storied city of Chicago. He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from Chicago's Northwestern University Medical School and has nearly three decades of experience in consulting, coaching, and counseling, working with thousands of people from all walks off life, throughout the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. He has since parlayed his experiences into a career in business psychology and management consulting, working with a number of companies to discover and develop leaders, and presenting at a variety of conferences around the world. Villejo offers RELATIVTY OnLine an academic and unique international take on individual perspective and self-elevation, and we are priviledged to have him with us.
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Rezwan
Born in Bangladesh in the port city of Chittagong and raised in the mega city of Dhaka, RELATIVITY OnLine's newest contributor is simply known as Rezwan. Growing up in an urban sprawl that reaches nearly thirteen million souls, the crowded, tough and dirty streets of Dhaka forged a man of principle and realism. He later left his home country for Europe, which included several years of study in Germany. He has since relocated once again, this time to Indonesia, where he now calls Jakarta home. A business executive who has worked with local conglomerates and multinational companies, Rezwan describes writing as the ultimate freedom of expression, which he in turn feels is a fundamental cog in the wheel of our own humanity. Like so many others, he sees the mainstream media as having lost much of its importance, especially in the foreign correspondent front, because citizen media is providing a much wider context and deeper perspectives. Rezwan is the current regional editor of Global Voices Online South Asia division and runs his own intriguing blog entitled The 3rd World View
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Kyle Brady
Born in the United Sates, in the small Maryland town of Lutherville, Kyle Brady currently resides in San Jose, California. Both a writer and an entrepreneur, Brady is another young American who sees today's mainstream media as disappointing at best, infuriating at worst. A registered Democrat and self-described issue-based Progressive with conservative tendencies, Brady is very aware of the tarnished American image abroad and lays much of the blame on the cowboy tendencies of the former Bush administration. He believes a return to rationality, quiet confidence, and the valuing of intelligence over bravado is what America needs and is now getting. What Brady most wants those outside of the United States to understand is that America is not a place of unified opinions. There are those who are rational and just as there are those who are crazy, and everything else in between. That's what happens when a nation grants each and every one of its citizens the right to Freedom of Speech, and Brady wouldn’t have it any other way. Brady runs his own political blog at http://www.kyle-brady.com/
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Lama J.
Born in the city of Doha and raised in the tiny desert nation of Qatar, Staff Writer Lama J. is one of millions of displaced Palestinians. A Jordanian national, she received her BA in English translation from Applied Science University in Amman, Jordan. Not long after graduating, she left the Middle East for Europe, taking a job in Germany and later, Switzerland. Over the years, she has worked and travelled through places as diverse as Libya, Syria, Holland, Canada, China and Thailand, and currently works as a financial analyst for one of the world's largest investment banks. Without question, she best represents RELATIVITY OnLine's benevolent spirit.
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Lara Matossian-Roberts
Born in Beirut, Lebanon to Armenian parents, Staff Writer Lara Matossian-Roberts left her country of birth while still a newborn and was raised in The United Arab Emirates. She has a BA in English Language from the American University of Beirut, and has been a career teacher for more than a decade. Her own distinctive upbringing, combined with world travel experience throughout Asia, the Middle East, Europe, North America, and Africa has given her a unique perspective on identity. A writer of instinctual necessity, Matossian-Roberts supplies RELATIVTY OnLine with an eclectic take on character and cultural nuance.
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Nora Fakim
Born and raised in the cultural mileu of London, England, Staff Writer Nora Fakim is daughter to a Moroccan mother and Mauritian father. The mix of traditional North African values and European cultural diversity has privileged her with a unique and informed global perspective. Fakim has a BA in French Literature from the University College of London, and a Master's in North African Dialects, Culture and Hebrew, from The National Institute of Language and Culture in Paris, France. (INALCO) She is currently working on a second Master's, an MA in Journalism from City University in London, and speaks French, English, Arabic and Creole. Multicultural, diverse, eclectic, and forthright, Fakim is a breathing example of RELATIVITY OnLine's multiplicity of perspective. Fakim runs her own blog at http://abfd211.wordpress.city-1.vsccreative.com/
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James O’Hearn
Born in Thompson, Canada, Staff Writer James O'Hearn has long followed a passion for the written word. He has a BA from York University in Toronto and is currently working towards an MFA from the University of British Columbia, both in the discipline of Creative Writing. While in Toronto, O'Hearn also hosted CHRY 105.5FM’s literary interview show “Covered & Bound” where he interviewed authors from Canada and around the world. An international and world travelled educator, he is the father of of two and splits his time between caring for his children, and looking out for the welfare of his students. RELATIVITY OnLine's resident satirist, O'Hearn runs his own blog at http://jamesohearn.blogspot.com.
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Abdulla Abdulsalam Belal
Born in Dubai, UAE Staff Writer Abdulla Abdulsalam Belal is a recent graduate of one his country's most prestigious prep schools. Set to begin his first year of college, he hopes to major in media studies and communications. In his young life, Belal has seen his small country go from a empty patch of sand, closed to the oustide world and steeped in tradition, to the Hong Kong slash Las Vegas of the Middle East. Fueled by dynamism and plurality, Belal's unique perspective is fresh and unsullen, his thoughts revealing the future of his country and perhaps, the Arab world as a whole.
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