Grace Perriman is a desk editor at <em>The Majalla</em>. She was previously a freelance writer who penned Middle East-inspired travel writing and blogged the first year of the Syrian uprising from Damascus. Grace received her bachelor’s degree in Arabic and Persian from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. A keen traveler, she has journeyed overland from Istanbul to Cairo, Tangiers to Bamako, and has crisscrossed Iran.
