Carolyn Baugh Books in Order – Complete List

Carolyn Baugh is an American author who wrote the Nora Khalil series, which features Nora, an Egyptian-American police officer who has to balance her Muslim upbringing with her Western work.

To read the Carolyn Baugh books in order, you should start with Quicksand, the first in the author’s Nora Khalil crime mystery series. Here are the Carolyn Baugh books in order for her series and standalone works.

Nora Khalil Books in Publication Order

Nora Khalil is an Egyptian-American police officer who has been assigned to the FBI’s Safe Streets Violent Gang Task Force, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to clean the streets from illegal gang activity.

  1. Quicksand, 2015
  2. Shoreline, 2017

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Carolyn Baugh Biography

Carolyn Baugh Books in Order – Complete List

Carolyn Baugh has a vast knowledge regarding Muslims and minorities overall due to her studies and work in the field. She graduated summa cum laude from Duke University in North Carolina in 1995 with a degree in Arabic and Arab literature. She then got a Master’s and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in Arabic and Islamic Studies (2008 and 2011 respectively), where she focused her graduate research on minor marriage in early Islamic law.

She speaks Arabic, and teaches courses in the Arabic language, in Middle Eastern and world history at Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania as an Assistant Professor of History. She also directs the Women’s Study program which organizes Women’s Studies Teas around important issues several times each semester.

In addition, Carolyn Baugh also directs the Erie Voices Refuge oral history project where her students can connect with and interview members of the Erie refugee population. This helps preserve their history, and also encourages people to learn more tolerance, and understanding each other within the various Erie groups. Her entire life and career have been dedicated to helping spread understanding of various cultures while building tolerance towards minorities. She is also a faculty adviser to the Saudi Students Association.

Over the years, Carolyn Baugh has lived in Fairview, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Durham NC, as well as in Cairo, Egypt, where she studied at the American University in Cairo.

An interesting side note, in college she also studied to be a concert pianist, and she always enjoys playing the piano at various events. Thus Carolyn Baugh is not only a published fiction author but also a professor, academic writer, as well as a translator (she translated Ibn Khaldun’s book on Islamic mysticism for NYU Press).

Her standalone novel, The View from Garden City, is a literary fiction story that is based on the author’s years of living in Cairo.

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