Malaka Gharib

Malaka Gharib is an artist and a journalist based in Washington, D.C. She is the author of “I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir,” about being first-generation Filipino Egyptian American. She is a writer and editor on NPR’s science desk. Her artwork — including a comic on the history of pimiento cheese in the Philippines and her mini zines — has been published in The Believer Magazine, Catapult, The Nib, Saveur Magazine, NPR, The Washington City Paper, The Washington Post and The New York Times. She is the founder of the D.C. Art Book Fair and The Runcible Spoon, a zine about food and fantasy. She graduated from Syracuse University with a dual major in magazine journalism and marketing.