Laila Lalami

Laila Lalami, the author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside.

Currently

  • Looking Past Clichés

    May 6, 2008

    The Visitor is that rare film that defines Arabs not as ethnic or religious stereotypes but as individuals.

  • The Fake Prince of Facebook

    February 21, 2008

    When a young Moroccan computer engineer created a fake Facebook profile for the Crown Prince of Morocco, the result was jail, torture and a very uncertain future.

  • The Dot Matrix

    January 3, 2008 Subscribe

    In I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody, novelist Sinan Antoon explores themes of love, loss, identity and resistance in the face of political oppression.

2007

  • Beyond the Veil

    November 21, 2007

    A new book examines headscarf hysteria and the politics of identity in contemporary France.

  • Revenants

    October 25, 2007

    In South African writer Zakes Mda's fiction, the past hovers like a ghost--seductive and terrifying.

2006

  • Letters

    August 31, 2006 Subscribe

  • Naguib Mahfouz: An Appreciation

    August 31, 2006

    Egypt has been deprived of its greatest living writer, and the world has lost one of its most humane literary figures.

  • The Missionary Position

    June 1, 2006

    Like radical Islamists and American interventionists, Ayaan Hirsi Ali's The Caged Virgin and Irshad Manji's The Trouble With Islam Today express great concern for Muslim women. But the trouble is not necessarily with Islam.

  • Exile and the Kingdom

    March 2, 2006

    In his newest novel The Last Friend, Tahar Ben Jelloun draws from his experiences as a writer and activist under Morocco's repressive monarchy.

2005

  • Love and Betrayal in Colonial Africa

    September 8, 2005

    Abdulrazak Gurnah's seventh book, Desertion, revisits the theme of exile and expands it to relationships---between lovers, between families, between countries.

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RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 11/10/08
This week, what it all meant. Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel on Barack Obama's victory and the coming battle for progressive change we can believe in. (13mb mp3)

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It's 3 a.m., Hillary's on the Phone | It looks like Clinton will be the Secretary of State.
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Left Out | Would it kill Obama to have an actual progressive or two in his cabinet?
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» The Dreyfuss Report

That Iranian "Bomb"? Relax. | Obama has lots and lots of time to deal with this problem carefully and rationally.
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» Passing Through

Should GM Survive? A Wall Street Analyst's View | Maybe they should just let it die.
Jane Hamsher

» Act Now!

Take the Joe Lieberman Pledge | In America, it's never too early to start preparing for the next election.
Peter Rothberg

» Editor's Cut

Smart Defense | Rep. Barney Frank is leading the charge to end the Pentagon's weapons spending spree. Is anybody listening?
Katrina vanden Heuvel

» And Another Thing

Election Updates --Good News and Not | Details on some ongoing stories
Katha Pollitt