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Laila Lalami (Arabic: ليلى العلمي, born 1968) is a Moroccan-American novelist and essayist. After earning her undergraduate degree in Morocco, she received a fellowship to study in England, where she earned an MA in linguistics.
In 1992 Lalami moved to the United States, completing a PhD in linguistics at the University of Southern California. She began publishing her writing in 1996, and in 2015 was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her 2014 novel The Moor's Account, which received strong critical praise.
Lalami was born and raised in Rabat, Morocco, where she earned her BA in English from Mohammed V University. In 1990, she received a British Council fellowship to study in England and completed an MA in Linguistics at University College, London. After graduating, she returned to Morocco and worked briefly as a journalist and commentator. In 1992 she moved to Los Angeles to attend the University of Southern California, from which she graduated with a PhD in Linguistics.
From the widely praised author of "Secret Son" and "Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits" comes a stunning piece of historical fiction. "The Moor’s Account" is an imagined memoir of the New World’s first explorer of African descent, a Moroccan slave known as Estebanico. Join Laila Lalami for a reading and conversation with Gina Frangello, author of "A Life in Men" and Sunday editor at the Rumpus. This program was recorded on October 26, 2014 as part of the 25th Anniversary Chicago Humanities Festival, Journeys: http://chf.to/2014Journeys See upcoming CHF events: http://chicagohumanities.org Help us subtitle and translate our videos: http://www.amara.org/en/profiles/videos/ChicagoHumanitiesFestival Follow CHF on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Chi_Humanities Like CHF on Facebook: http://www.f...
Laila Lalami talks to the Los Angeles Review of Books about her story collection 'Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits."
Muslims living in Western nations are often marginalized. Laila Lalami, author of New York Times Magazine article "My Life as a Muslim in the West's 'Gray Zone,'" joins CBSN to discuss.
We spoke with author Laila Lalami, who wrote March Guest Judge Craig Ferguson's selection, 'The Moor's Account.' The historical fiction novel tells the story of the man who was thought to be the first black explorer in America, a slave brought over by the Spanish who was originally from Morocco. 'The Moor's Account' was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2015.
Writer Laila Lalami joined Oregon Humanities' Adam Davis for a conversation history, gender, and writing across languages and borders.
Laila Lalami, assistant professor of creative writing and award-winning author addresses storytelling and explains that the best stories are those that hold some kind of truth and offer a new way of looking at the world.
In an interview with MoroccoBoard TV, Laila Lalami took issue with her comparisons to Moroccan Writer Tahar Ben Jelloun, as the marquee Moroccan author in English. She said that she couldnt start believing all the hype that is being written out there. "It is dangerous for an author to do that". She also confessed that she has been heartened by the outpouring support from the Moroccan American Community both online and at her book tour throughout the country. for more coverage visit moroccoboard.com at http://www.moroccoboard.com
At her reading, organized by Algonquin Books, Washington Moroccan Club and Border Books, in Washington DC, Moroccan American Author, Laila Lalami, described the central character of her second novel in English, "Secret Son", as a poor young man in contemporary Morocco, his aspirations of education and escape from the Casablanca Slum where he lives with his mother, the revelation that his father is still alive and doing well and his sub-sequential adventures. In a lively Q&A; session following her presentation, She refused to be seen as anything but a novelist, "I am not pretending to know my native country Morocco any more than anyone else". She said that she does not necessarily aim to do social criticism, or write about any particular issue, her main focus as a novelist, is to write a st...
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[Mr. Lil One]
[laughing] That's right
It's Mr. Lil One and my dog Knightowl
Hollow Point, brining it to that ass
Sippin on these caronas
Bringin it on ya, mothafucka
And you know this so watch that ass
Mothafuckas
[Knightowl]
I'm on some good shit my minds trippin
So you best not get caught slippin
Or I'ma see the penitentry
Cause I don't a fuck
About no fool that tried to play the roll
Like he be tough so I'm a call you're fuckin bluff
Let's see what you made you got some skills
But I'ma bring the fuckin chills
Cause I be the one that kills, mothafuckas
That don't get out the way
Better listen to them things I got to say
If not your life might be the price you pay
The Knightowl getting clecha, simon
Yo soy el mas cavrone pelon
Con el vecanio you heard about us fool you know
We be the dopest on the block
Knowing you kids just fuckin OG's
We stick all glue and all we got to say to you
Is FUCK YOU
Somos los mas buscados
por todos los lados
los tragos de amorgo liquor
para el dolor
pa que no sufras
tiro de gracia
traigo desgracias
pa todo el enemigo
que quiera bronca con migo
[Chorus: Mr. Lil One]
Well I'ma brake it down
And I came to put it down
I'ma show you mothafuckas
That I don't play around
H - O - double L - O - W
Point 9 double M aimin at you
[x2]
[Mr. Lil One]
Maniacs busting raps
Comin through given naps
What about all down
What I'm I the word of mouth
Lettin em know the word is out
Hollow Point is comin out
All about them pesos
Putting holes up in your wesos
By the way Lil Ray from back in the days
Is here to say what a way to get you back
Now I'm getting paid to rap
Still the same got the fame
Everybody know my name
Kickin it with viscious getting malicious on a track
Get malicious on you bicthes
Every time you here me rap
Had them shackles on my angles
And them cuffs up on my wrists
I'm finished with my sentences
And now I'm fuckin pist
Kiss my fuckin ass better hope I never blast
I'm walkin in a path with an ax and a mask
Waitin for this drama to blow out of paportion
Record your fuckin murder play it back in slow motion
People were made to decorate graves
[Chorus]
[Knightowl]
Two face mothafuckas like to yap
But never sleep at night
It's fools like me and Lil
That'll make your mind get brittle
What's the fuck is all of this I heard about me
It be some shit that I don't know
But you know that way shit travels
The way lips babble
Bitches open up their gaps like sluts
That got fuckin nuts
They be talkin out that ass now I'ma blast
Don't you back stab a fool that'll put your life on hold
I'm fuckin sick up in the mind I represent the 619
National City cops got
Me with a pistol pointed at my dome
They never leave my ass alone
So what the fuck am I to do when
I be rollin through the strip
When I get pulled over on Highland Avenue
All I wanted was some pussy
But fuck it I got to leave
I don't not want my shit impounded
All of a sudden I spots some fools
It's me they all surrounded
And I be straped and do not feel remoarse
I feel INSANE so I'ma bring you putos pain