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Laila Lalami
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Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami, the author of Secret Son and Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, is an associate professor of creative writing at the university of California, Riverside. Her new novel, The Moor’s Account, will be published next year.
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News and Features
Alarmist tracts about immigration in Europe are debates about Muslims--not with them.
Governor Schwarzenegger's proposed budget cuts would be an unmitigated disaster for California's public universities.
The Visitor is that rare film that defines Arabs not as ethnic or religious stereotypes but as individuals.
When a young Moroccan computer engineer created a fake Facebook profile
for the Crown Prince of Morocco, the result was jail, torture and a very
uncertain future.
In I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody, novelist Sinan Antoon explores themes of love, loss, identity and resistance in the face of political oppression.
A new book examines headscarf hysteria and the politics of identity in contemporary France.
In South African writer Zakes Mda's fiction, the past hovers like a ghost--seductive and terrifying.
Egypt has been deprived of its greatest living writer, and the world has
lost one of its most humane literary figures.
Like radical Islamists and American interventionists, Ayaan Hirsi Ali's The Caged Virgin and Irshad Manji's The Trouble With Islam Today express great concern for Muslim women. But the trouble is not necessarily with Islam.
