An Evening with Laila Lalami

Schedule

Tue Feb 17 2026 at 05:30 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Tomás Rivera Library (4th Floor, Special Collections Reading Room) | Riverside, CA

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Join Professor Laila Lalami for a conversation about her latest work with Klein Librarian Dr. Phoenix Alexander.
About this Event

From Laila Lalami—the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist—comes a riveting and utterly original novel about one woman’s fight for freedom, set in a near future where even dreams are under surveillance.

Hosted by Klein Librarian Dr. Phoenix Alexander

Tuesday February 17 at 5:30 p.m.

Tomás Rivera Library (4th Floor, Special Collections Reading Room) at UC Riverside

This event is brought to you by the UCR Department of Creative Writing and UCR's Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

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Tomás Rivera Library (4th Floor, Special Collections Reading Room), 900 University Avenue, Riverside, United States

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