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| '''Alissa Kristel''', is also known as '''Kristel Alissa''', who is a professional writer and author with [[Intact America]]
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| ==Early life and education==
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| Alissa is a native of Beirut, Lebanon, where she lived in the Armenian Quarter.<ref name="kristel-1">{{REFweb
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| |url=https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kristel-alissa_im-honored-to-announce-that-ive-been-selected-activity-7254461554312495104-kghE
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| }}</ref> She studied English at [https://www.ul.edu.lb/ Lebanese University].
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| ==Adult life==
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| Alissa taught English in the Lebanese school system for more than a decade. She relocated to the [[United States]] in 2023 where she wrote for SnackNation and Caroo.<ref name="kristel-1" />
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| She entered a travel writers contest and won an award for her writing with an article about her native Beirut and won the prize in 2024, which is The Edward-Readicker-Henderson Travel Classics Memorial Scholarship.<ref name="Alisa-winner2024">{{REFweb
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| Alissa then joined [https://www.lucidhousepublishing.com Lucid House Publishing] as an Acquisitions Editor,<ref name="kristel-1" /> where she is identified as "''Kristel Issa''" and works under the supervision of [[Connor Judson Garrett]]<ref name="lucid2024">{{REFweb
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| She is now writing for [[Intact America]], where nine of her articles about [[circumcision]] have been published so far.
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