Just listened to the Disgraced (audiobook) by Ayad Akhtar. Feeling ambivalent about it’s treatment of Islam and Muslims. It’s a problem that non-Muslims are the only ones allowed to think positively of the religion and that too as art or tradition and not theology. 1/
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Yes, I saw Who & the What first, even tho it was made after. I thought it was really smart & interesting, & then this was a disappointment. If I'm remembering (spoiler) he turns out to fulfill stereotypes against liberal whites trying to be "open"? But it got mounted everywhere..
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Yes Othello-like, he inhabits the barbaric wife beating Muslim by the end. It was all just so predictable, and the idea of a Muslim pathology or “psyche” to use the play’s word wasn’t challenged.
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