Ashwannie Harripersaud
Professor Daizal R. Samad, a Guyanese-Canadian, is the former director of the University of Guyana, Berbice Campus. He has been a scholar, writer, and administrator on five separate continents. Samad is the author of numerous scholarly articles. He has written and edited several books, including Rivers Whisper Stars (a book of poems); Characters in Crisis: The Novels of John Hearne (a definitive book on John Hearne); The Mirror Tells its Tale (a novel); Ethnocentric Perspectives; and Land Beneath the Wind. Samad is currently working on a book of short stories and a novel. Professor Samad has been lauded for his teaching excellence in Canada, Malaysia, and Morocco.