Alia Malek

journalist and civil rights attorney

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Alia Malek is a journalist and civil rights lawyer. She is the author of The Home that Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria.

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Last week, President Trump stunned the world by striking Syria with 59 Tomahawk missiles in retaliation for Bashar al-Assad's use of chemical weapons against his own people.

Mixed messages from America's new hard line on Syria

Last week, President Trump stunned the world by striking Syria with 59 Tomahawk missiles in retaliation for Bashar al-Assad's use of chemical weapons against his own people.

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