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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 will be released on October 26, 2010 in Trade Paperback
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‘A Country Called Amreeka' gives warm look at Arabs in America
KansasCity.com, May 23, 2010
...FBI could show up at your book reading. It sounds comical and bizarre, but it really happened to Alia Malek. She was at an Arab-American cultural center reading from her book, A Country Called Amreeka: Arab Roots, American Stories, when she noticed a...
Review: In Alia Malek's 'A Country Called Amreeka,' Arab American lives unfold with warmth, wit
St. Petersburg Times, May 9, 2010
...post-9/11 atmosphere? The FBI could show up to your book reading. It sounds comical, but it happened to Alia Malek. She was at a cultural center reading from her book, A Country Called Amreeka, when she noticed a pair of uncomfortable-looking men. She...
'A Country Called Amreeka,' by Alia Malek
San Francisco Chronicle, April 18, 2010
...Jonathan Becker / Free Press Alia Malek If you were an author who had just written a book about the history of Arabs in America, a book about how deeply woven into the fabric of this...
Book Review: A Country Called Amreeka
Political Affairs, March 8, 2010
...Subscribe to RSS headline updates from: Powered by FeedBurner A Country Called Amreeka: Arab Roots, American Stories by Alia Malek New York: Free Press, 2009 Few, if any, books published in the past 10 years or so which deal with the histories and lives...
Ethnic bias is no longer an option
National Catholic Reporter, February 13, 2010
...five who assure us we don’t have the option of ethnic bias. The most recent books by Alia Malek, Monica Ali, Marina Nemat, Jhumpa Lahiri and Jehan Sadat -- biography, autobiography and autobiographical fiction -- search inside the lives of immigrants...
A Country Called Amreeka
Christian Science Monitor, December 2, 2009
...There is a scene in by Alia Malek that seems to be playing on repeat. We’ve been watching it for weeks, as pundits pick apart the background, psychology, and religiosity of Army Maj. Nadal Hasan, who...
2010 Arab American Book Award Winners
Publishing Perspectives, June 1, 2010
...and Stories from Iraq by Dunya Mikhail (New Directions) Honorable Mentions (Non-Fiction) Amreeka: Arab Voices, American Stories by Alia Malek (Free Press) and Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience After 9/11 by Louise A....