I have a PhD and Master's from International Islamic University Malaysia and a degree in Religion from Dartmouth College. I am conversant in seven languages and have taught three. I have spent five years writing ESL curriculums as a principal, and during that time I also wrote an international prep school curriculum for Cambridge English Literature.

Initially, I planned to be a Math teacher, and I have five course credits from Dartmouth, amounting to a minor, in Math. Dartmouth gave me a C...