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}}</ref> She studied English at Lebanese University.
==Adult life==
Alissa taught English in the Lebanese school system for more than a decade. She relocated to the [[United States]] in 2023.<ref name="kristel-1" /> She relocated to the [[United States]] in 2023 where she wrote for SnackNation and Caroo. Then she joined [https://www.lucidhousepublishing.com Lucid House Publishing] as an Acquisitions Editor,<ref name="kristel-1" /> where she is identified as Kristel Issa.
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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Then she 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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