—Joe Sacco, author of Safe Area Gorazde and Palestine.Laila Lalami's tale of a young Moroccan man who must navigate between a bleak background and a bright possibility is magnificently told and wrenched my heart.

Essays

On Percival Everett for The Nation
On Morocco for The Nation
On Tangier for Time
On Abdelfattah Kilito for The Nation
On Europe’s Muslim immigrants for The Nation
On writing in English for World Literature Today
On gender roles for the Los Angeles Times
On Abdourahman Waberi for The National
On Tayeb Salih for The National
On Alain Mabanckou for The National
On Orientalism for CUNY’s Great Issues Forum
On Sinan Antoon for The Nation
On Joan Wallach Scott for The Nation
On Zakes Mda for The Nation
On Sayed Kashua for The Boston Review
On Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Irshad Manji for The Nation
On Tahar Ben Jelloun for The Nation
On Being in One’s Thirties for The May Queen (Edited by Nicki Richesin)
On Being an Immigrant in America for Proud to be Liberal (Edited by Robert Lasner)
On Fiction in the Age of Poverty for Powells.com
On Abdulrazak Gurnah for The Nation
On “The Visitor” for The Nation
On Stereotypes of Arabs for The Los Angeles Times
On Father of the Bride for The Los Angeles Times