You know how there’s this unspoken convention in big action movies that the black cop always gets killed? I’m wondering if the new trend in terror dramas is for the good Arab to end up six feet under before the final act. Case in point: The Grid, a TNT movie I had TIVOed because it advertised itself (falsely, I might add) as being to terror what Traffic was to drugs. The Grid‘s good Arab is a CIA Middle-East specialist, played by Piter Marek and, sure enough, the poor guy meets his demise in the last episode.
Who is Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is the award winning and best selling author of six books.
What books has Laila Lalami written?
Laila has written the novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor's Account, The Other Americans, and The Dream Hotel.
What awards has Laila Lalami won?
Laila Lalami has won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, the Hurston-Write Legacy Award, a Guggenheim a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and a British Council Fellowship. Her work has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.