Malaka Gharib is a journalist, cartoonist and graphic novelist.

She is the author of "I Was Their American Dream," a graphic memoir published in 2019 about being first-generation Filipino Egyptian American, which won an Arab American Book Award in 2020. In 2022, she published "It Won't Always Be Like This," a graphic memoir about her summers in the Middle East.

By day, is the digital editor of the NPR podcast Life Kit. Previously, she was the deputy editor and digital strategist on NPR's global health and development desk, where she covered humanitarian aid, foreign aid and women’s health.

Her comics and writing have been published in the Los Angeles Times, Catapult, The Believer Magazine, The Nib and The New Yorker. She has been profiled in The Washington Post and The New York Times.

Her comics and zines are archived at the Smithsonian Institution, the New York Public Library, the Arab American Museum and Barnard College’s Zine Library. Her art and writing has been exhibited at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Harvard Radcliffe Institute and Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery.

She graduated magna cum laude from Syracuse University and lives in Nashville, Tenn., with her husband, son and Shiba Inu.

 
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"I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir.
It Won't Always Be Like This: A Graphic Memoir
Arabic language version of I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib
Arabic language version of It Won't Always Be Like This by Malaka Gharib