Alia Malek will be reading from her new book, A Country Called Amreeka: Arab Roots, American Stories and speaking with Professor Noha Radwan about some of the issues covered in the book. Her website is:

http://www.acountryca...

Event details are below:

Wednesday, October 28th
from 6:30-8:30pm

Columbia University
SIPA (School of International and Public Affairs)
420 W. 118th Street
International Affairs Building, Room 707
New York, NY 10027
(212) 854-4775

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 working in the legal field in the U.S., Lebanon, and the West Bank, 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. A Country Called Amreeka is her first book and tells American history through the eyes of Arab Americans.