Laila Lalami on "Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits"

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Laila Lalami is a Moroccan novelist and critic for "The Nation" magazine. She tells Jim Fleming that Muslim women are trapped between two competing world views, neither of which knows how to help them or asks them what they want for themselves. Her novel is called "Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits."