Michael Gibson is a senior instructor in the Department of Rhetoric and Composition and director of the Mohamed Taymour Writing and Communication Center.  Holding a Master of Arts degree from Hope International University, he has also completed intercultural and linguistic studies at Biola University, Fuller Seminary and Dallas Seminary. In 2014, he published a chapter in Toward, Around, and Away from Tahrir: Tracking Emerging Expressions of Egyptian Identity (Cambridge Scholars Publishing).