Aida Alami

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Aida Alami is a Marrakesh-based freelance journalist who’s frequently on the road, reporting from North Africa, France, and the Caribbean. She regularly contributes to the New York Times, and her work has also been published by the NYR Daily, Middle East Eye, Al Jazeera English, and Foreign Policy. She earned her bachelor’s degree in media studies at Hunter College and her master’s degree in journalism at Columbia University. She mainly reports on human rights, politics, immigration, and racism. These days, Alami spends a lot of time in France, where she is directing a documentary feature on antiracism activists and police violence.

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A Black Minneapolis Artist Brings Hidden Communities to Light

Bobby Rogers’s art finds beauty and creativity in unseen communities, from black Muslims to Minneapolis gang members to faces of police brutality protesters. MINNEAPOLIS—Three years ago on a hot summer day, Philando Castile was shot…
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Somali and American: Portrait of a Minnesota Community

Refugees often say that war feels like a wave of violence washing over them, leaving behind death and destruction. The feeling was no different for Katra Ali Hethar, who fled war-torn Somalia in 1991 with…
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Laila Lalami: ‘Whoever Tells the Story Controls the World’

The Moroccan-American author talks about her new novel, in which she gives voice to a wide range of characters, including a racist American Laila Lalami is never in a hurry to finish writing a book.…