Narratives of post-9/11 injustice.

Join Alia Malek, author and a civil rights lawyer, for a reading this evening. Born in Baltimore to Syrian immigrant parents, she began her legal career as a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. After working in the legal field in the U.S., Lebanon, and the West Bank, Malek, who has degrees from Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities, earned her master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. Her reportage has appeared in Salon, The Columbia Journalism Review, the New York Times, the Nation, Christian Science Monitor and WashingtonPost.com.

This event is sponsored by Voice of Witness, Hastings Race and Poverty Law, National Lawyers Guild- Hastings Chapter, the South Asian Bar Association, the Bay Area Association of Muslim Lawyers, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).