London-based literary magazine Banipal is organizing the first-ever tour of Arab authors in the UK, with Lebanese novelist Hoda Barakat, Palestinian poet and memoirist Mourid Barghouti, and Iraqi authors Samuel Shimon and Saadi Youssef taking part. Program details can be found here. The importance of the Banipal initiative is highlighted in this Herald article by Rosemary Goring (scroll down, past the Booker commentary.)
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.