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4 days ago · Study with Quizlet and memorise flashcards containing terms like "Do not be frightened by my beard: I am a lover of America." (p.1), "This is a dream come true. Princeton inspired in me the feeling that my life was a film in which I was the star and everything was possible.
2 days ago · For him, this looked like being cast as the aspiring suicide bomber Omar in Chris Morris’s comedy feature Four Lions and finance professor Changez Khan in Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Now, at 41 years old, Riz has reached a kind of nirvana, paved with the bricks he used to breach a notoriously homogeneous industry.
5 days ago · Nair subsequently directed Amelia (2009), a biopic about the American aviator Amelia Earhart, and The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012), which follows a Pakistani émigré wrestling with his cultural identity in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
5 days ago · Diaspora is a term broadly attached to the set of fictional works that explore the dilemmas, struggles, and pursuits of misfit characters in foreign cultures. Mohsin Hamid’s well-acclaimed novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), is among the best illustrations of this.
3 days ago · After completing Rocket Singh, Shimit Amin stayed away from direction for a while, working as an editor on The Reluctant Fundamentalist and a consultant on Shuddh Desi Romance. However, the filmmaker soon moved back to US.
4 days ago · "From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, a love story that unfolds in a world being irrevocably transformed by migration. In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed.
5 days ago · —Mohsin Hamid, author of Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, in the New York Times.
