Past Events

7 PM
The Levantine Center
5998 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035

Lannan Foundation Residency
Marfa, Texas

4:00 PM
New Media/New Protest
Panel discussion with Laila Lalami, Ben Ehrenreich, Marc Bousquet, and Kavita Philip
Moderated by Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Donald Bren Hall 1100
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California

3:30 pm
Fiction: Conflicting Identities
Panel with Dana Johnson, Laila Lalami, Nina Revoyr, and Antoine Wilson
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

6:00 PM
Arab Spring: Unfoldings, Refoldings
Panel discussion with Laila Lalami and Ahmed El Shamsy
Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

5:40 PM
Ecrits d’Amérique
Salon du Livre
Rue Tiznit, Face à la Mosquée Hassan II
Casablanca, Morocco

Various Times
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Common Reader
Wingate University
Wingate, North Carolina

2:00 – 4:00 PM
Readings
The Different Faces of Immigration
With Reyne Grande, Ligiah Villalobos, Sonia Nazario, Jesefina Lopez, and Laila Lalami
SkyRose Chapel
Rose Hills Memorial Park
Whittier, California

7:00 – 8:30 PM
Lecture and Discussion
Rocking the Casbah: Morocco and the Arab Spring
Levantine Cultural Center
5998 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, California

2:00 PM
Fiction of the Middle East: Assaf Gavron, Laila Lalami, and Reza Aslan. Moderated by Gina Nahai.
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California