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Alia Malek

Alia Malek
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Alia Malek

ALIA MALEK is an author and civil rights lawyer. Born in Baltimore to Syrian immigrant parents, she began her legal career as a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. After practicing law in the States, Lebanon, and the West Bank, Malek, who has degrees from Johns Hopkins and Georgetown universities, earned her master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. Her reportage has appeared in Salon, The Columbia Journalism Review, and The New York Times. This is her first book.

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A Country Called Amreeka is now available in Trade Paperback
Oct 26, 2010
A Country Called Amreeka will be released on October 26, 2010 in Trade Paperback
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Fear, Anger and Politics Al Jazeera World12 Sep 2012 13:48 GMT We follow the stories of some American Muslims caught up in the crackdown that followed the 9/11 attacks. Conventions 2012: The Price of the Party Fault Lines12 Sep 2012 15:07 GMT Fault Lines
Al Jazeera, September 12, 2012
...of a community under siege - a community that had become collateral damage in the 'war on terror'. Alia Malek’s book, Patriotic Acts : Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustices , showed how thousands of individuals in the US have been needlessly swept...
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Al Jazeera, September 6, 2012
...of a community under siege - a community that had become collateral damage in the 'war on terror'. Alia Malek’s book, Patriotic Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustices, showed how thousands of individuals in the US have been needlessly swept up in...
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Al Jazeera, September 5, 2012
...of a community under siege - a community that had become collateral damage in the 'war on terror'. Alia Malek’s book, Patriotic Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustices, showed how thousands of individuals in the US have been needlessly swept up in...
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Al Jazeera, September 5, 2012
...of a community under siege - a community that had become collateral damage in the 'war on terror'. Alia Malek’s book, Patriotic Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustices, showed how thousands of individuals in the US have been needlessly swept up in...
Fear, Anger and Politics
Al Jazeera, September 5, 2012
...of a community under siege - a community that had become collateral damage in the 'war on terror'. Alia Malek’s book, Patriotic Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustices, showed how thousands of individuals in the US have been needlessly swept up in...
Imam Khalid Latif: Ramadan Reflection Day 18: Honoring The Victims Of Wisconsin Sikh Temple Shooting
Huffington Post, August 6, 2012
..." The panel took its name from a collection of essays that has the same name, edited by Alia Malek who was also on the panel. The essays focused on men and women from diverse backgrounds who were treated unjustly post 9/11 and some of the essayists were...