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This Experiment Will Help You Move From Procrastinating to Creating with Malaka Gharib

This Experiment Will Help You Move From Procrastinating to Creating with Malaka Gharib

Update: 2025-09-17
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Malaka Gharib is a writer, journalist, and cartoonist. She is the author of I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir, winner of an Arab American Book Award and named one of the best books of the year by NPR, The Washington PostKirkus Reviews, and the New York Public Library. By day, she works on NPR’s science desk, covering the topic of global health and development. Her comics, zines, and writing have been published in NPR, CatapultThe Seventh Wave Magazine, The NibThe Believer, and The New Yorker. 


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This Experiment Will Help You Move From Procrastinating to Creating with Malaka Gharib

This Experiment Will Help You Move From Procrastinating to Creating with Malaka Gharib

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