Poets Nathalie Handal and Sholeh Wolpe will be reading from their work at Beyond Baroque in Los Angeles tomorrow, May 6. Here are details. I should mention that the event is organized by the Levantine Cultural Center, which brings together artists of all cultures of the Mediterranean and the Middle-East, a fantastic cooperative for the arts.
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.