Amina Al Sherif

Amina Al Sherif is the author of the Nadiri fiction series. Originally from Cairo Egypt, she immigrated to the United States in 2010 as a first generation Arab-American and African American. Amina is a member of the LGBTQ+ community as well as a BIPOC writer.

Amina has worked with the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) for over ten years as a United States Army officer. She has deployed to Baghdad, Iraq, Northern Syria, Turkey, Israel, as well as Afghanistan supporting the Special Operations Community.

A graduate of Penn State University, Amina holds a BA in Linguistics and Arabic from the University of Mississippi and a Masters in Professional Studies in Cybersecurity and Information Sciences.

Amina regularly blogs on Medium documenting her self-taught technical career, and maintains a literary blog on her website. In January 2020, she published her first book An Approach to Machine Learning in Cyber Defense for the Department of Defense. She currently lives in San Antonio, Texas with her daughter and her German Shepherd, DFO. By day, Amina is a machine learning engineer at Google.