Alia Malek

Teaches at Newmark Graduate School of Journalism

Alia is an award-wining journalist and former civil rights lawyer. She is the author of A Country Called Amreeka: US History Re-Told Through Arab American Lives (Simon & Schuster 2009) and editor of Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post 9/11 Injustices (McSweeney’s 2011). Her narrative non-fiction book, The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria, was released in 2017.

Her reportage has appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, NewYorker.com, the Nation, the Christian Science Monitor, Jadaliyya, McSweeney’s, Guernica and other publications. She was a senior writer at Al Jazeera America and a writing fellow at The Nation Institute. She lived in and reported on Syria as the country began to disintegrate.