• Malaka Gharib on a Summer in Egypt and Learning to Love Her Stepmother

    From her Graphic Memoir, It Won't Always Be Like This

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    It Won't Always Be Like This

    Reprinted with permission from It Won’t Always Be Like This: A Graphic Memoir by Malaka Gharib, copyright 2022. Published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House.


    Malaka Gharib
    Malaka Gharib
    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 Post, Kirkus 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, Catapult, The Seventh Wave Magazine, The Nib, The Believer, and The New Yorker. She lives in Nashville with her husband, Darren, and her dog, Sheeboo.





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