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You are invited to join us for an evening of networking, dinner and conversation with International Author, LAILA LALAMI.  This event is presented by THE STANLEY FOUNDATION.  

Laila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morrocco, Great Britain, and the United States of America.  She is the author of novels Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award, Secret Son, which was on the Orange Prize longlist, and The Moor's Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award.  It was both a nominee for the Man Booker Prize and a finalize for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.  Ms. Lalami's essays and opinion pieces have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, The Nation, the Guardian, the New York Times and in many anthologies.  In 2016, Ms. Lalami was named a columnist for The Nation magazine and a critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times.  Ms. Lalami is the recipient of a British Council Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship and is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside.