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==Early life and education==
Alissa Kristel is a native of Beirut, Lebanon, where she lived in the Armenian Quarter.<refname="kristel-1">{{REFweb
|url=https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kristel-alissa_im-honored-to-announce-that-ive-been-selected-activity-7254461554312495104-kghE
|title=Kristel Alissa’s Post
|last=Kristel |first=Alissa
|init=
|author-link=Alissa Kristel
|publisher=Linked In
|date=
|accessdate=2025-01-01
}}</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">
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
|url=https://travelclassics.com/scholarship-winner/
|title=The Edward-Readicker-Henderson Travel Classics Memorial Scholarship for New and Emerging Travel Writers
|last=Anonymous
|first=
|init=
|author-link=
|publisher=Travel Classics
|date=2024
|accessdate=2025-01-01
}}</ref>
She is now writing for [[Intact America]].
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