Malihe Razazan speaks with Alia Malek about her new book The Home that was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria.
Alia Malek
Alia Malek is a journalist, civil rights lawyer, and author of A Country Called Amreeka: Roots, American Stories. She is currently a Puffin Foundation writing fellow at the Nation Institute and at work on a book about Syria.
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