Laila Lalami is the author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits and Secret Son. She is currently an associate professor at the University of California, Riverside. Follow her on Twitter at: Twitter.com/LailaLalami
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The City: Los Angeles
Laila Lalami discovers a metropolis at once foreign and familiar. MORE
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The Arab Spring May Have Bypassed Morocco, But Its People Are Not Happy
A death in the family opens a window on the frustrations that afflict the people of Morocco. MORE
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Morocco’s Culture of Silence
The suicide of rape victim Amina Filali is a reminder that the shameful blame-the-victim culture in... MORE
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Nameless Palestinian Prisoners
We must name and remember the Palestinians being freed in exchange for Gilad Shalit, argues Laila... MORE
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An Unlikely Martyr
Journalist Rachid Nini is jailed in Morocco by the very government whose agenda he used to serve. MORE
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In Defense of the Hotel Maid
French intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy wrote yesterday on the Beast, "What I do know is that... MORE
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Why Egypt's Naysayers Got It Wrong
Right up until the end, political theorists the world over insisted that what happened in Tunisia... MORE
