Reluctant Fundamentalist Critics

Question 1

Mosin Hamid? On international Relations.

Answer 1

=> “Allowed me to mirror the mutual suspicion with which America and Pakistan (or the Muslim world) look at one another.

Question 2

Leerom Medovoi?

Answer 2

=> Erica is a “heavy handed allegorical figure” who “personifies the narrator’s romantic investments, his ill-fated love affair with American life.”

Question 3

Mosin Hamid? On Changez?

Answer 3

“At its core, this is a story of someone who is in love with America, in love with an American woman, who finds he has to leave.”

Question 4

Mosin Hamid? On duality?

Answer 4

“To be a human being and to be a hybrid being are the same thing.”

Question 5

Said?

Answer 5

“The East has often been presented as mysterious or strange opposed to the West representing the norm or logical.”