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SUMMARY:Club Book Author Series:  Laila Lalami
DESCRIPTION:Moroccan American novelist Laila Lalami uses fiction as a vehicle to showcase “overlooked” North African stories and experiences. Notable examples include her 2014 breakout The Moor’s Account\, which reconstructs the journeys of the New World’s first explorer of color. It won the American Book Award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Lalami’s follow-up\, The Other Americans\, centers around the mysterious death of a Moroccan immigrant in California. Equal parts family drama\, murder mystery\, and love story\, The Other Americans was singled out by media as varied as the BBC and BuzzFeed as one of the most anticipated releases of 2019. Lalami’s new release\, Conditional Citizens\, is something of a departure. In this deeply personal exposé\, the author uses her own unlikely immigration story as an entrée for explore the hot-button question: What does it mean to be American? One reviewer noted: “Probing\, unflinching and fiercely intelligent\, Conditional Citizens is a must-read for all of those who have stared\, stunned\, at the shifting terrain of our political landscape and wondered how we got here.” \n**Not clear which time zone this is taking place\, I believe it’s 7pm Central Time.**
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SUMMARY:Conditional Citizens: Laila Lalami in conversation with Alexander Key
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book\, Pulitzer Prize Finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen\, using it as a starting point for her exploration of the rights\, liberties\, and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship. Tapping into history\, politics\, and literature\, she elucidates how accidents of birth–such as national origin\, race\, or gender–that once determined the boundaries of Americanness still cast their shadows today. Throughout the book\, she poignantly illustrates how white supremacy survives through adaptation and legislation\, with the result that a caste system is maintained\, keeping the modern equivalent of white male landowners at the top of the social hierarchy. Conditional citizens\, she argues\, are all the people whom America embraces with one arm\, and pushes away with the other. Brilliantly argued and deeply personal\, Conditional Citizens weaves together the author’s own experiences with explorations of the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/conditional-citizens-laila-lalami-in-conversation-with-alexander-key/
LOCATION:WA
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event – Laila Lalami with Roxane Gay
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Event – Laila Lalami\n\nOctober 12 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm\n\n\n\nMagic City Books is proud to welcome Laila Lalami\, author of the new book Conditional Citizens for a virtual author event on October 12\, 2020. In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book\, Pulitzer Prize Finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen\, using it as a starting point for her exploration of the rights\, liberties\, and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship. Tapping into history\, politics\, and literature\, she elucidates how accidents of birth–such as national origin\, race\, or gender–that once determined the boundaries of Americanness still cast their shadows today. \nLaila Lalami will be joined by Roxane Gay\, author of the essay collection Bad Feminist and the memoir\, Hunger. This free event will be hosted on the Zoom platform. To register in advance visit: https://magiccitybooks.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_V8H4H1U2Rk2zL-7HfHycgw \nAfter registering\, you will receive an email confirmation with details about how to join the event on Monday\, October 12 at 7:00 CDT. \nConditional Citizens will be published by Pantheon Books on September 22. You can reserve a copy at Magic City Books or pre-order a copy here: https://magiccitybooks.square.site/product/conditional-citizens/212
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/virtual-event-laila-lalami-with-roxane-gay/
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SUMMARY:Qalam wa Kalima – a virtual celebration!
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, October 17 for Qalam wa Kalima – a virtual celebration! 2pm EST \nQalam wa Kalima pays tribute to the enduring legacy of al-Rabita’s members through a dynamic program\, including: \n\nReadings of al-Rabita members’ work by some of the most well-known Arab American writers and scholars\nA special musical performance by Michael Ibrahim\nAn exclusive tour of our new digital exhibition featuring a number of rare original printings of books and other materials by al-Rabita members\n\nTickets are $100. All proceeds will support AANM’s ongoing mission to preserve and uplift Arab American cultural heritage. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiana Abu Jaber is the award-winning author of Origin\, Crescent\, Arabian Jazz and The Language of Baklava. Her writing has appeared in Good Housekeeping\, Ms.\, Salon\, Vogue\, Gourmet\, The New York Times\, The Nation\, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinan Antoon is an Iraqi-born poet\, novelist\, scholar and translator. He has published two collections of poetry and four novels\, which have been translated in fourteen languages. His work has appeared in The Guardian\, The New York Times and many pan-Arab newspapers and journals. In 2003\, Antoon co-produced About Baghdad\, a documentary about the lives of Iraqis under occupation. He is co-founder and co-editor of Jadaliyya and associate professor at NYU.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCarol W. N. Fadda grew up in Beirut\, Lebanon where she earned her B.A. and M.A. from AUB\, and later her Ph.D. from Purdue University. Her first book\, Contemporary Arab-American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging (NYU Press\, 2014) contests negative representations of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. She serves as the editor of the Critical Arab American Studies book series at Syracuse University Press.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKhaled Mattawa\, poet born and raised in Benghazi\, Libya\, relocated to the U.S. as a teenager in 1979. Mattawa has been awarded several Pushcart Prizes and the PEN Award for Literary Translation\, in addition to a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship\, the Alfred Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University and a MacArthur fellowship. He is currently on faculty at the University of Michigan.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOmar Offendum is a Syrian American hip-hop artist\, designer\, poet and peace activist. He was born in Saudi Arabia\, raised in Washington\, D.C.\, and now lives in Los Angeles\, California.
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SUMMARY:Laila Lalami: Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Event
DESCRIPTION:Laila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco\, Great Britain\, and the United States. She is the author of four novels\, including The Moor’s Account\, which won the American Book Award\, the Arab-American Book Award\, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction\, and The Other Americans\, which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller\, a best-of-2019 selection from a dozen outlets\, and a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the Los Angeles Times\, the Washington Post\, The Nation\, Harper’s\, the Guardian\, and the New York Times. She has received fellowships from the British Council\, the Fulbright Program\, and the Guggenheim Foundation and is currently a tenured professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles. \n  \nTime: TBA
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/laila-lalami-los-angeles-times-festival-of-books-event/
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