Podcasts about i was their american dream

Malaka Gharib is the author of I Was Their American Dream, a graphic memoir about being first-generation Filipino Egyptian American, and It Won't Always Be Like This, a graphic memoir about her summers in the Middle East. On today's show, Annmarie and Malaka talk about the American immigrant experience, how to be a working writer, and what it means to be the realization of our parents' greatest dreams. Episode Sponsors Novelette Booksellers – Nashville's only queer-owned bookstore. We are a fun, vibey, safe space for book lovers of all ages. We boast a highly curated selection of both fiction and non-fiction books by diverse authors, and a great selection of graphic novels. With an eye toward inclusivity and the celebration of our differences, Novelette strives to welcome people of all backgrounds. Stop by or shop online at novelettebooksellers.com Skylark Bookshop – A fiercely independent bookstore where we strive to find new ways to celebrate literature and our community. Some books give us knowledge and perspective; others simply give necessary space to breathe. Putting the right book into the right hands is a deeply meaningful act. We believe that we can find that book for everyone who walks through our doors. We embrace enjoyment, entertainment, and the beauty of Skylark Bookshop. Stop by or shop online at skylarkbookshop.com.   Authors and Titles Mentioned in This Episode: I Was Their American Dream, by Malaka Gharib It Won't Always Be Like This, by Malaka Gharib Uzma Jalaluddin Liana Finck Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car: Comics for Beautiful, Awful and Ordinary Days, by Jordan Bolton Follow Malaka Gharib: Instagram: @MalakaGharib Substack: @Malaka malakagharib.com Photo Credit: Leah Margulies **Writing Workshops and Wish Fulfillment:  If you liked this conversation and are interested in writing with other women on retreat, consider joining Annmarie and co-leader Athena Dixon for a writing retreat in Italy in September, 2025. Or you can join Annmarie and co-leader Phyllis Biffle Elmore for a writing retreat in France. You can travel to a beautiful place, meet other wise women, and write your own stories. We'd love to help you make your wishes come true.  As of this moment, we only have 2 spots left for France, but you can click this link for $900 off.  Enter the password RetreatWriteRepeat  and the coupon code is 25AK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode #121, graphic memoirist, Kelcey Ervick joins the show to talk about her graphic memoir and what it's like to write about and draw her lived experience.  Books Recommended:I Was Their American Dream by Malaka GharibThe Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft Good Talk by Mira JacobThe Painter's Daughter by Emily HowesGive Me Space But Don't Go Far by Haley Weaver Kelcey's books:The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law that Changed Women's Lives Field Guide to Graphic LiteratureFind Kelcey online:WebsiteSubstackInstagramJoin the Books Are My People Bookclub on SubstackFind a Silent Book Club Near YouSupport the showI hope you all have a wonderfully bookish week!

In this episode of Book Club, Malika Gharib joins us to share her musings on what it means to be an artist, the symbiotic relationship between journalism and comics, as well as what the 'American Dream' truly means. She reflects on growing up as a first-generation Filipino Egyptian, her changing relationship with her heritage, and how she uses her work as a medium to grapple with questions of identity, family, and lived experience. Malika Ghareeb, is a journalist, cartoonist, and graphic novelist. She's the artist and author of I Was Their American Dream which reflects on growing up first-generation Filipino-Egyptian, and which was the winner of the 2020 Arab American Book Award. By day Malika is the digital editor of the NPR podcast Life Kit. Her reporting work for NPR has been recognized with two Gracie Awards. Before joining NPR, she worked at the Malala Fund.  ****** ABOUT THE SERIES ****** afikra Conversations is our flagship program featuring long-form interviews with experts from academia, art, ‎and media who are helping document and/or shape the histories and cultures of the Arab world through their ‎work. Our hope is that by having the guest share their expertise and story, the community still walks away with new ‎found curiosity - and maybe some good recommendations about new nerdy rabbit holes to dive into head first. ‎Following the interview there is a moderated town-hall style Q&A with questions coming from the live virtual audience ‎on Zoom.‎ Join the live audience: https://www.afikra.com/rsvp  

Original broadcast date: May 9, 2022. Whether it's superheroes like The Avengers or slice-of-life cartoons in The New Yorker, comics capture our imaginations like no other art form. A few small panels can take us to another galaxy or show us life from someone else's point of view. Comics and graphic novels are not just for kids! They are the perfect vehicle for anyone who wants to explore a new world. In this episode, we talk with local illustrators about how they got into comics and how they tell stories through their unique art styles. Guests: Malaka Gharib, author and illustrator of I Was Their American Dream and the forthcoming It Won't Always Be Like This Anika Orrock, author and illustrator of The Incredible Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Janet K. Lee, co-creator of Return of the Dapper Men, illustrator of Marvel Comics adaptations of Jane Austen's Emma and Northanger Abbey Scout Underhill, creator of DnDoggos web comic Daniel Pujol, co-creator of Salt Weekly zine and Thaw postcard comic Related reading:  ‘This is our Black Friday': Free Comic Book Day brings community back to one Middle Tennessee comic store

Journalist, cartoonist, and graphic novelist Malaka Gharib, author of "I Was Their American Dream" and "It Won't Always Be Like This," joins the ritual to discuss her process of digging through old diaries and revisiting emotional experiences to better understand her unique upbringing. Tune into Malaka's vibrations: https://www.malakagharib.com/ Join the ritual: www.patreon.com/thispodcastisaritual Follow the Wizard on Instagram @personisawake

"What are you?" That's a very tricky question journalist and cartoonist Malaka Gharib is super familiar with as a first generation Filipino-Egyptian-American. Malaka grew up navigating three different cultures and two religions...something Chris can relate to as a Dominican-Colombian-American who grew up in the vibrant city of Queens, New York. Listen to learn more about how Malaka's thinking about the question "What are you?" evolved and inspired her to write her first graphic memoir I Was Their American Dream. Her latest book It Won't Always Be Like This is out now.

Whether it's superheroes like The Avengers or slice-of-life cartoons in the New Yorker, comics capture our imaginations like no other art form. A few small panels can take us to another galaxy or show us life from someone else's point of view. Comics are not just for kids and are the perfect vehicle for anyone who wants to explore a new world. Saturday was Free Comic Book Day so we're talking to NPR editor and Nashville-based artist Malaka Gharib, whose work was included in the national promotion. We'll also be joined by other local illustrators about how they got into comics and how they tell stories through their unique art styles. Guests: Malaka Gharib, author and illustrator of I Was Their American Dream and the forthcoming It Won't Always Be Like This Anika Orrock, author and illustrator of The Incredible Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Janet K. Lee, co-creator of Return of the Dapper Men, illustrator of Marvel Comics adaptations of Jane Austen's Emma and Northanger Abbey Scout Underhill, creator of DnDoggos web comic Daniel Pujol, co-creator of Salt Weekly zine and Thaw postcard comic

On the final episode of the first season of the Seen Jeem podcast, we have the pleasure of speaking with journalist, cartoonist and author Malaka Gharib about her award-winning graphic memoir, I Was Their American Dream, which explores themes related to the immigrant experience. Listen to this episode to learn more about how Malaka's identity as a Filipino-Egyptian-American person inspired her book! View videos of Malaka's reading here: www.seenjeempodcast.org/episodes/episode-15-malaka-gharib --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/seenjeempodcast/message

NOW on SPOTIFY!It's a night of revelations and secrets as the boys are joined by friend-of-the-pod Kristen Gudsnuk! Kristen reveals TONS about her work, her interests, her favorite movies, her mutant pinkies, and her new graphic novel, MAKING FRIENDS: THIRD TIMES A CHARM!John reveals his personal story with that fateful 900-number from DC back in the ‘80s. Bob reveals the 666th film in his personal movie journal. And Joey reveals that hey, 2011's Green Lantern isn't actually that bad maybe???Comics talked this week: Batman/Catwoman #6, Supergirl, Woman of Tomorrow #3, Trial of Magneto #1, Way of X #5, Wonder Woman in The Fifties TPB, Maneaters: The Cursed #2, Suicide Squad: Get Joker #1, Daredevil #33, I Was Their American Dream, J&K, and The Bloody Cardinal.The Comic Book Podcast is brought to you by Talking Comics (www.talkingcomicbooks.com) The podcast is hosted by Steve Seigh (JoBlo.com assistant EIC & news editor), Bob Reyer, Joey Braccino, John Burkle, Jessica Garris-Schaeffer, Aaron Amos, and Sarah Miles who weekly dissect everything comics-related, from breaking news to new releases. Our Twitter handle is @TalkingComics and you can email us at podcast@talkingcomicbooks.com.

Firoozeh Dumas is the acclaimed author of FUNNY IN FARSI, which was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. In her new memoir LAUGHING WITHOUT AN ACCENT she shares stories both tender and humorous on being a citizen of the world, on her well-meaning family, and on amusing cultural conundrums. Malaka Gharib is an artist, journalist, and writer. Her graphic memoir I WAS THEIR AMERICAN DREAM is at once a coming-of-age story and a reminder of the thousands of immigrants who come to America in search for a better life for themselves and their children. Now let's join these two authors in conversation with one another.

Throughout the 10 stories in Land of Big Numbers, Te-Ping Chen — a founding member of NüVoices — sketches the interior lives of her protagonists, who live in (or are connected to) China: a man determined to strike it rich in the stock market, a migrant worker employed at a flower shop who is infatuated with a customer, and a government employee being stalked by her ex-boyfriend. Inspired by her years living in Beijing and Hong Kong as a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, Chen drew upon her travels and the remarkable lives of people she met to construct a world that didn't fit neatly into news reports. The debut author speaks with NüVoices chair Joanna Chiu and New York chapter member Megan Cattel on her observations of modern China, the transferable skills of journalism to fiction, and advice on navigating the publishing industry. Recommendations: Te-Ping: Do Not Say We Have Nothing, by Madeleine Thien, and Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It, by Maile Meloy.Joanna: Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke, Invisible, by Paul Auster, and The Woo-Woo, by Lindsay Wong. Megan: Notes of a Crocodile, by Qiu Miaojin (English translation by Bonnie Huie), I Was Their American Dream, by Malaka Gharib, and The Wedding Banquet, directed by Ang Lee.

"I Was Their American Dream" is a graphic novel by NPR deputy editor Malaka Gharib. Gharib is Egyptian-Filipina-American and grew up with her immigrant parents in California. Her book explores her multicultural identity and how she felt she had to adapt to different traditions, languages, and religions with the different people in her life. Nguyên Khôi Nguyễn, also an author, can relate. His work focuses on his identity as Vietnamese-American. Both Gharib and Nguyễn join us this hour to share their stories and to discuss what it means to be a first-generation American in 2020. Our guests: Malaka Gharib , author of "I Was Their American Dream," and deputy editor and digital strategist on NPR's global health and development team Nguyên Khôi Nguyễn , author of "The Gulf" and "Bittersweet: A Pandemic Sketchbook," and digital media lecturer at Loyola University Maryland

Art offers one way for people to share their stories and connect. This episode features two pinay artists, who share their inspirations and creative journeys. First, we sit down with Magdalena Dolorico, a 15-year-old artist in Massachusetts. Then, we step outside of the Bay State to hear from Malaka Gharib, author of the graphic novel, I Was Their American Dream.

Welcome to another episode of Graphic Novel Podcast! Every episode Parker and Mike review a graphic novel and discuss its relation to their lives and the world in general. This episode they read I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib.  Content Warning: Gruesome death around 31:30  We also mention Shortrun.org happening November 9 in Seattle! We'll be there! Please check out our Patreon page patreon.com/graphicnovelpodcast, Twitter.com/graphicnovelpod, Facebook.com/graphicnovelpodcast, or review us on Apple Podcasts.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/graphicnovelpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/graphicnovelpodcast/support

Navigating between three worlds as a Filipino-Egyptian in America, Malaka Gharib grew up struggling to grasp what it meant to live the American Dream. That is, until she wrote and drew her first graphic memoir, “I Was Their American Dream.” We break bread over the role of food in defining -- and confounding -- our cultural identities, drink a piquette that piques our interests in natural wine, and be ‘N Sync in our loves for fanfic. Malaka finds herself in a mukbang of Spam, Eddie yearns to be on the beach, and Alexya goes emo in the studio.

This episode is a conversation with NPR journalist Malaka Gharib and the author behind the book I Was Their American Dream.  We discuss the pursuit of creativity, Malaka’s path to journalism, and the unexpected impetus to her book. We also talked about the current political climate, the importance of owning and sharing our stories, and the new opportunity we have to be more visible as Filipinos.   Warning: some adult language (because we’re adults) Photo Credit: Andrew Castro

Zine queen, cartoonist, artist, illustrator Malaka Gharib dives into her creative, Washington DC, including her soon-to-be-released graphic novel/memoir, "I Was Their American Dream," and "Runcible Spoon," her long-running food zine that reached national audiences, straight out of the gate.

Whenever someone working in strategy or marketing says, "I just want to do work that has more meaning," Malaka's face is one of the faces that rushes through my head as an example of someone who is building a life and career around meaning. After a flirtation with the music industry and the agency world, Malaka has spent much of her career writing about some of the most challenging topics our world confronts - conflict and poverty. Based in Washington D.C., Malaka has worked for ONE.ORG, the Malala Fund, and is now an editor at NPR. She is also working on a graphic novel "I Was Their American Dream," in which she's capturing stories about growing up in some fourth dimension straddling Egypt, America, and the Philipines. Video: http://www.sweathead.co Malaka on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/malakagharib Malaka on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MalakaGharib Mark: http://www.twitter.com/markpollard Email newsletter: http://eepurl.com/dscjW5