Description: Originally published in hardcover in 2009.
Brief description: 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'sCivil 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 masters degree in journalism from Columbia University. Her reportage has appeared in Salon, The Columbia Journalism Review, and TheNew York Times. This is her first book.
Review Quotes: "Like President Obama's first book, A Country Called Amreeka explores what it's like to be of two worlds at once...A wonderfully lucid and rational look at 20th century Arab American life. A book like this would be valuable in any era, but particularly now...it's welcome, brave and necessary." --Dave Eggers, The San Francisco Chronicle