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Book-signing event at PCC

Join us at the Northwest Campus on Oct. 28 as Tucson author Laila Halaby reads from her latest novel, Once in a Promised Land.

Laila Halaby was born in Beirut, Lebanon, to a Jordanian father and an American mother. She speaks four languages, won a Fulbright scholarship to study folklore in Jordan and holds a master's degree in Arabic literature. Her first novel, West of the Jordan, won the prestigious PEN Beyond Margins Award. The Washington Post named her second novel, Once in a Promised Land, as one of the 100 best fiction books of 2007. She lives in Tucson with her family.

What: Reading and book-signing with Laila Halaby

When:  Wednesday, Oct. 28, 1 p.m.-2 p.m.

Where: PCC Northwest Campus, A207

Co-sponsored by the NWC Student Life and NWC Library

For more information about this event and other upcoming programs and classes at Pima Community College, call 206-4500.