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Ali Almossawi (born December 1, 1984) is a San Francisco-based author of books on critical thinking and computer science education, and the creator of An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments. He is also a principal engineer at Apple and was formerly employed as a data visualization engineer by Mozilla. He has stated that his day job helps his writing by constraining his time.

Almossawi published the first edition of An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments in July 2013, by sharing it online for free and supporting the project with donations and sales of a print edition. In December 2013, the book was acquired by Experiment Books who released a second edition in September 2014.

Volunteers have translated the book into twelve languages and the book's website has been visited by 2.6 million visitors. The book has appeared in print in Russian, Italian, Korean, Slovak, French, Simplified Chinese, Complex Chinese, and Brazilian Portuguese.