Ayad al-Qazzaz, Professor of Sociology and President of the Middle East Cultural Association at California State University, Sacramento, holds degrees from the University of Baghdad and the University of California, Berkeley, and is president of the Arab American Chamber of Commerce of Sacramento. He is the author of books and articles published throughout the U.S. and the Arab world. Al-Qazzaz produces a half-hour TV show, Focus on the Middle East, for the Access Channel in Sacramento.