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Author Laila Lalami
In conversation with UAlbany Political Science Professor Virginia Eubanks, author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor (2018)
Laila Lalami, major contemporary author, will present her new dystopian sci-fi novel, The Dream Hotel (2025), about a near-future world in which the surveillance state uses technology to spy on dreams. Jennifer Egan called it, “A gripping, Kafkaesque foray into an all-too-plausible future where data collection penetrates interior life.”
Lalami is the bestselling author of five books, including The Moor’s Account, winner of the Arab American Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and The Other Americans, a finalist for the National Book Award.
NPR called her a “maestra of literary fiction.” Her acclaimed nonfiction book, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America (2020), explores the struggles of new immigrants to achieve the full rights of citizenship — drawing on her own experiences as a female, Muslim Moroccan-American.
Laila Lalami
4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Conversation / Q&A
University at Albany
Multi-Purpose Room, Campus Center West
1400 Washington Avenue Albany NY 12222
Presented by the NYS Writers Institute
Cosponsored by the AI Plus Institute, UAlbany's hub for interdisciplinary AI research. For more events, visit www.albany.edu/ai-plus/institute.
Also cosponsored by the Honors College and the School of Criminal Justice’s “Justice and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century Project.”
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