  Alia Malek
11:00 a.m.
Saville Theatre
A Country Called Amreeka: Arab Roots, American Stories chronicles the last forty-plus years of American history, told through the eyes of Arab Americans. It begins in 1963, before major federal legislative changes seismically transformed the course of American immigration forever. Each chapter describes an event in U.S. history — which may already be familiar — and invites us to live that moment in time in the skin of one Arab American. The chapters follow a timeline from 1963 to the present, and the characters live in every corner of this country. 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, Malek, who has degrees from Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities, earned her master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. Her reporting has appeared in Salon, The Columbia Journalism Review, and The New York Times. A Country Called Amreeka is her first book.
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Featuring:
Jill Holslin is a lecturer in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing Studies at San Diego State University where she has taught courses on the politics of street art & popular culture, Islam and modernity, and the U.S.-Mexico border wall. A photographer and blogger, Holslin has spent the past three years documenting the construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in San Diego County, and has used her work to lobby political leaders both in San Diego and in Washington D.C. with the coalition No Border Wall. Holslin publishes articles about culture in the San Diego-Tijuana region regularly on her blog, http://www.attheedges.com/ |
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