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Reviewed on January 1, 2017 | Social Sciences
Born in Baltimore to Syrian refugee parents, Malek is an award-winning author (A Country Called Amreeka), journalist, and civil rights lawyer. While her original intent was to trace her family's history over the course of the last century, what Malek has produced is a valuable collection of stories of Christians, Jews, Muslims, Armenians, and Kurds as they interacted in Syria since the waning days of the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th century....Log In or Sign Up to Read More