Join us during Banned Books Week where author Laila Lalami will discuss her latest book The Dream Hotel, censorship, and banned books. 

Lalami is an outspoken advocate for free expression and regularly contributes to discussions regarding the systemic removal of marginalized authors and texts. 

Laila Lalami was born and raised in Morocco, educated in Great Britain, and now lives and teaches in California. She is the author of six books, including The Moors Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Her next novel, The Other Americans, was a national bestseller, won the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. However, it was also banned from school districts and has received various censorship attempts. 

Her fiction and nonfiction often deal with outsider perspectives and what it means to be a citizen. 

In her fifth novel, The Dream Hotel, a woman fights for freedom in a near-future world where even dreams are under surveillance.