April Media Map: Conditional Citizens by Laila Lalami

Supplement your reading of Conditional Citizens by Laila Lalami by exploring related music, books, TV, film, podcasts & social media accounts, with additional resources & articles to check out!

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Music

• Hardcover Hotties Collaborative Playlist

• Elyanna – First Coachella performance completely in Arabic

Books:

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

• Exit West by Mohsid Hamid

• The Other Americans by Laila Lalami

• The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsid Hamid

• Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison by Sarah Mirk

• Guantanamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi

• Beirut bloody Beirut by Tracy Chahwan

• Il était une fois … les révolutions arabes by Nabim Ajan & Gilles Gauthier

• Displacement by Kiku Hughes

• The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

• The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio ♥

• Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli

• Almost American Girl by Robin Ha

• They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

• Another Country by James Baldwin

• The Stationary Shop by Marjan Kamali

• Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education by Danielle S. Allen

• Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas

*♥ Previous Hardcover Hottie “Book of the Month” Pick!

Art:

• Omar Khouri: The Left Hand of Darkness

• Tracy Chehwan

• Etel Adnan: Light’s New Measure

TV & Film:

• Minari (2020)

• Where Is the Friend’s House? (1987)

• A Separation (2011)

• Sirens (2022)

• The Golden Dream (2014)

• Under The Same Moon (2007)

Podcasts & Video Essays

• Laila Lalami: “Conditional Citizens” | Talking with Authors

• The Queer Arabs Podcast

Accounts to Follow:

• @arabfilmmedia

• @arabnarratives

• @mizna_arabart

• @thedreamdefenders

• @informed_immigrant

• @undocublack

• @borderkindness

• @migrantscribble

• @migrantfreedom

• @iamanimmigrant

• @immjusticenetwork

• @nomuslimbanever

• @joseiswriting

• @punk_ass_arab

Resources

• Queer Crescent

• Check out Laila Lalami’s website

• National Arab American Heritage Month 2023 Educator’s Curriculum Kit

• Al-Bab

• Al-Bab aims to introduce non-Arabs to the Arabs and their culture. Western explorers of the 18th and 19th centuries portrayed the Arab world as a strange, exotic and sometimes terrifying place. Al-Bab seeks to portray the Arab world neither as an object of fear nor as a cultural curiosity – fascinating though it may be.

• Arab American Foundation: Arab American Fun Facts

• Arab American National Museum - Arab American History and Culture

Articles to Check Out:

• An Interview with Yazan al-Saadi

• Arab America Blog

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