Alia Malek is the author of The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria (2017) and A Country Called Amreeka: US History Re-Told Through Arab American Lives (2009). She edited Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post 9/11 Injustices (2011) and edited and co-conceived EUROPA أوروپا : An Illustrated Introduction to Europe for Migrants and Refugees (2016). Her article on the Koblenz trial, “How a Syrian War Criminal Was Brought to Justice — in Germany,” was published on January 25th in the New York Times Magazine.She directs the international reporting concentration at the Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and is a former civil rights attorney.