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Laila Lalami
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So much has happened since my last update that I don’t even know where to begin. Let’s see. This summer, I wrote about the tragedy at the Spanish border post of Melilla, where 23 people, many of them refugees from countries like Sudan, died in confrontations with Moroccan border police. The massacre is one of many that have been happening recently, as a result of a decade-long effort on the pa
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The Other Americans
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The Moor's Account
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Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
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Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
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2005
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Secret Son
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The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami (September 23,2014)
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The Moor's Account: A Novel
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The Dream Hotel
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MATBUCHA MAGIC : Savory Delights from Mediterranean Cuisine
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Season of Migration to the North (New York Review Books Classics)
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“A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too.”
― The Moor's Account
― The Moor's Account
“Perhaps memory is not merely the preservation of a moment in the mind, but the process of repeatedly returning to it, carefully breaking it up in parts and assembling them again until we can make sense of what we remember.”
― The Other Americans
― The Other Americans
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| Literary Fiction ...: Laila Lalami Essay | 1 | 23 | Sep 07, 2009 12:38PM | |
| Literary Fiction ...: Orange Prize Longlist includes Attica Locke & other Authors of Color | 16 | 43 | Apr 20, 2010 07:46PM | |
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I'm really glad that you got back. Your work sounds fantastic. I'm currently working on a political thriller set in Iran but will be starting one shortly based in Algeria. A French middle class filmmaker of Algerian origin gets permission to go to Algeria (during the civil conflict) to make a sequel to the classic movie The Battle of Algiers. He's also trying to find out what happened to his friend from University, a Kabyle Berber who was a staunch Stalinist before the collapse of the USSR who seems to have become an oil executive then been killed by Islamicist terrorists. The protagonist falls for his friend's sister then begins to realise that he isn't actually dead. Thematically, it's a remake of The Third Man by Carrol Reed, Graham Greene and Orson Wells with "Harry Lime" manipulating Islamic terrorism to drive the indigenous Berber population out of an oil rich part of Kabyle.