Here’s an interesting event for those of you in Los Angeles. Sponsored by the ever-fantastic Levantine Cultural Center, “Uncensored Iranian Voices” features readings by poet Sholeh Wolpe, author Reza Aslan, actor Shohreh Agdashloo, and author Lila Azam Zanganeh. Details:
Sunday, April 9, 2006
7 pm.
Pacific Arts Center
10469 Santa Monica Bl.
Los Angeles, 90025
Free.
The readers are all contributors to My Sister Guard Your Veil; My Brother Guard Your Eyes, a new anthology edited by Lila Azam Zanganeh, which I have on my TBR pile.
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.