Moroccan writer Abdelilah Beleqziz contributes an impassioned op-ed in An-Nahar about the Qana massacres of 1996 and 2006.
Meanwhile, three lawyers and human rights activists, Abderrahim Jamaï, Khalid Sefiani and Abderrahmane Benameur, have filed a lawsuit in Rabat against the Moroccan-born Israeli Minister of Defense, Amir Peretz, for war crimes in Qana.
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.