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Ilona Kauremszky is an experienced award-winning journalist who has filed numerous articles on the travel industry for leading consumer and trade publications. A syndicated Toronto Sun travel columnist for QMI Agency, one of Canada’s largest media companies, her writing is also published in a wide variety of media outlets across North America, Southeast Asia and the United Kingdom. Clients: Air Canada Vacations, Ensemble Vacations, ATOUT France, Air Miles, CAA, Travel Industry Today, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, and more. She is also the former editor of Corporate Meetings & Events Magazine, producer of www.mycompass.ca and its youtube channel, mycompasstv, and is a contributing author for the upcoming Michelin Green Guide Ontario (pub date: 2012). Ms. Kauremszky is the Founding President of The Travel Media Association of Canada, Ontario Chapter (TMAC) and currently holds the title of First Vice-Chair of the SATW (Society of American Travel Writers) Canadian Chapter. As a travel expert she has appeared on television and radio for CBC News Now, NPR, and CFRB; and is available as a guest speaker. This year Ilona received the coveted Discover America Travel Writer award from the US Travel Association. Stephen Smith is a photographer, a cinematographer and a filmmaker. He's a student of fine arts and holds an Honours B.A.A. degree in Motion Picture Production from Ryerson University in Toronto. His work as a director, producer and cinematographer has taken him around the world. Smith is the writer/director of the critically acclaimed and award winning feature, Annigoni: Portrait of an Artist, a film about the enigmatic Italian portrait painter Pietro Annigoni. He is also a producer of Road to Castagno: A Renaissance Dream and the screenwriter of The Lover Burns, the story of the life and times of the world's most beloved poet, Robert Burns. Stephen Smith's films are placed in the collections of Centre Du George Pompidou, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art and Canada House, England. His photographs have been published in: The Globe & Mail, The National Post, The Toronto Star, Canadian Geographic Travel, The Buffalo News, myontario, CRUISE magazine, The Canwest newspaper chain, Canoe.ca and more. Stephen Smith is gold award winner at the 2008 Bill Muster Photography Competition and an active member of SATW Society of American Travel Writers. His photographs are available at photos. New Productions: The Body Map: Scars of South Africa Havana Arte Lovin Louisiana Magical Malaysia Stones of Tunisia Tabarka Jazz Other Productions: Surrender, They Said Black Waters Road to Castagno: A Renaissance Dream Annigoni: Portrait of an Artist Deconstructing a Lustron Tubman & Henson, Footsteps on the Freedom Trail Saving Simons Niagara Silencing Serling: A&E v. Strayer Release date: TBA Moving Squeeks Release date: TBA Habeeb Salloum's special focus is travel and tourism, history and cuisine, especially that of the Mediterranean and Latin-speaking worlds. He also specializes in the history of Arab pioneering/homesteading in western Canada and the influence of Arab/Muslim Spain on world history, with particular interest in Arabic contributions to the English and Spanish vocabularies. Mr. Salloum has published hundreds of articles and lectured on these subjects. His most important published works are: Journeys Back to Arab Spain Middle East Studies Centre: Toronto, 1994 Arabic Contributions to the English Vocabulary Librarie du Liban: Beirut, 1996 From the Lands of Figs and Olives Over 300 Delicious and Unusual Recipes from the Middle East and North Africa Interlink Books: New York, 1995 HB; 1997 PB Classic Vegetarian Cooking From the Middle East and North Africa Interlink Books: New York, May 2000 HB Arab Cooking On A Saskatchewan Homestead: Recipes And Recollections Canadian Plains Research Centre, University of Regina, Regina, Canada 2005 (WINNER of the Cuisine Canada and The University of Guelph's Silver Canadian Culinary Book Awards in Winnipeg in 2006). Mr. Salloum has two new books soon to be released. The Bison Cookbook is slated to be published in 2009 by the Canadian Plains Research Centre, University of Regina and Medieval Arab Cooking, co-authored with his daughters, Muna and Leila, slated to be published in 2010 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. dispatches | q&a | photos | film | fork | news | archives | links | search | store | submit | about | contact | home All text & photos © mycompass.ca 2002-13.