I wish someone told me not to get off the car when stopped by a cop as a sign of respect for them.
I wish someone told me not to pick up random kids in the park and kiss them on the cheeks like we do on Morocco without being considered psychos.
In this stunning work of historical fiction, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of Americaa Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record.
Dr. Aicha Lahlou attended Al-Akhawayn University from 1995 to 1997, and then transferred to Houston, Texas, where she attended the University of Houston and Rice University and completed her Ph. D in International Relations and received a Graduate Certificate in Womens Studies. She is currently an adjunct professor in the Political Science Department of the University of Houston where she has taught several courses in the Politics of the Middle East and North Africa and the Politics of Developing Areas since August 2003.