disenfranchisement

January 16, 2012

Being Good Enough

OUR PLIGHT By: Michael J. Oghia June 2011 Beirut, Lebanon Dedicated to all my Arab–American brothers and sisters that know exactly how I feel. Who am I, but a complex amalgam of contradictory identities? Two, which exist paradoxically, yet never seem to make you feel complete. They glare at you for one, Snarl at you, Continue reading

Arab Americans, Arabs, Arts and Culture, Middle East

disenfranchisement, Immigration, poetry

About Alia

Alia Yunis is a writer, journalist and filmmaker. She is currently producing and directing “The Golden Harvest,” a feature length documentary about how olive oil has shaped the Mediterranean culture, cuisine and history for 6,000 years, through war and peace. Her debut novel, The Night Counter (Random House) has been critically acclaimed by the Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, and several other publications. It was also chosen as a top summer read by the Chicago Tribune and Boston Phoenix. The Boston Globe has called it “wonderfully imaginative…poignant, hilarious.” Alia was born in Chicago and grew up in the U.S., Greece, and the Middle East. She has worked as a filmmaker and journalist in several cities, especially Los Angeles. Her fiction has appeared in several anthologies, including The Robert Olen Butler Best Short Stories collection, and her non-fiction work includes articles for The Los Angeles Times, Saveur, SportsTravel Magazine, and Aramco World. She currently teaches film at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi.

disenfranchisement

Being Good Enough