Heidi Tawfik has had extensive exposure to Middle Eastern life and culture. She met her Egyptian husband while she was studying foreign languages and he was an exchange student at Vanderbilt University. She lived for five years in Egypt and Saudi Arabia which afforded her an insightful knowledge of the Arabic language, traditions and customs and enabled her in this narrative to weave fiction with historical facts and events into a colorful tapestry. She spent over ten years researching and writing this historical fiction, her second published work.
In Cairo, Mrs. Tawfik studied Arabic and Egyptian history at the American University, taught English classes to Egyptian students at the American Cultural Center and published articles about her observations on life in the Middle East.
Employed by an international company in Silicon Valley in the 1970’s, Mrs. Tawfik was involved in international business development in the Middle East and Europe.
The author speaks and writes fluent German and has a good command of Spanish and French.
She traveled extensively to Europe, the Middle East and South America and was an accomplished Flamenco dancer, piano player and oil painter.
The author is the mother of one son and grandmother to two grandchildren and has been a resident of Foster City, California for many years.