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Sep 14, 2020 · The novel, which turns on Akhtar’s sense of alienation as a Muslim man in the United States after September 11th, leans into provocation: we see the narrator fucking a white woman in an...
- Alexandra Schwartz
Sep 14, 2020 · The narrator's name in the novel is also Ayad Akhtar, and the book reads like memoir. Akhtar says he had to "pilfer" from his own life to write a novel that had the "addictive thrill" of...
- Noel King
American Dervish is a 2012 novel by Ayad Akhtar. The novel tells the story of a young Pakistani-American boy growing up in the American Midwest and his struggle with his identity and religion.
- Ayad Akhtar
- 2012
Apr 29, 2013 · A play that tackles Islamophobia and questions of Muslim-American identity recently won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. The play is Disgraced, by first-time playwright Ayad Akhtar.
Ultimately, the play offers no conclusions about Islam itself, only revelations of the characters’ true priorities and feelings with regards to Islam. Disgraced, Ayad Akhtar’s first play ...
Jun 21, 2016 · Because of this woman, the young Pakistani American started reading and—as he puts it—“thinking about the deeper questions of life.” Since then, Akhtar has developed a body of work spanning screenplays/teleplays, stage plays, and a novel that dissects the Muslim American experience, questions America’s relationship to Islam, and ...
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Jan 6, 2021 · Akhtar tells us how the Prophet’s life overly influences the way Muslims live now, leading the narrator’s cousin Ayesha into a deeply unhappy early marriage.
