Jonathan Curiel is a writer and journalist in San Francisco whose honors include an American Book Award; an award from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism; and an “Outstanding Academic Title” honor from the review journal of the Association of College and Research Libraries. SF Weekly's former art critic, he has reported stories from more than a dozen countries — including Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt in the Middle East. At Punjab University in Pakistan, he taught as a Fulbright Scholar. And at Oxford University in England, he was a Reuters Foundation Research Fellow — studying the historic impact of Islamic architecture on synagogue and church architecture.