Malaka Gharib: “To belong, you need to feel at home with yourself first”
The author on being 100% Filipino, 100% Egyptian and 100% American
Image: Ben de la Cruz
Hi, welcome back to Mixed Messages! This week, I’m speaking to journalist, author and award-winning cartoonist Malaka Gharib, who is of Egyptian and Filipino heritage. Malaka’s graphic memoir, I Was Their American Dream, charts her experience growing up with dual heritages in America, exploring the hopes her family had for her and t…