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September 11, 2021

Early Morning Calls

How September 11 Made Me a Muslim Writer When I woke up on Sept 11, 2001 in my apartment in LA, it was still dark. I was a struggling screenwriter up with the sun. I was trying to be like Stephen King, who I’d heard somewhere woke up at 3 am to get his writing Continue reading

Arab Americans, Arts and Culture, Heritage, Islam/Muslim, Uncategorized, Writing

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September 4, 2010

ABC.COM’s Michelle Goodman on the Freelance Life & Art

Recently, Michelle Goodman, the author of “My So-Called Freelance Life,” a must read cautionary and inspirational tale for those contemplating chucking it all to pursue their own dreams, interviewed me and two other writers for her column on ABC.com. You can read for yourself how we all learned about the glamorous life of writing. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/artist-heart-michelle-goldmans-reasons-day-job/story?id=11287370 Continue reading

Arts and Culture, Author, Publishing

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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.

writers

Early Morning Calls

ABC.COM’s Michelle Goodman on the Freelance Life & Art