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Zarina, a literary scholar and creative writer, has avoided romance after a heartbreak some years past, spending her time writing a historical fiction viewing the Prophet Muhammad through the lense of gender politics. Her Pakistani father Afzal, determined to get his eldest daughter married, has been secretly impersonating her on Muslim dating websites, finally revealing his scheme after finding the perfect match: Eli, a Muslim convert, a progressive imam, an intellectual equal for his
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Zarina: You did what?
Afzal: It鈥檚 not that big a deal, behti.
Zarina: How many times have you done this?
Afzal: Twice. (Beat.) Okay鈥�. More than twice.
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Afzal:.... Meet him for your poor old father.
Zarina: You鈥檙e not poor. And you鈥檙e not old.
Afzal: For your lying and manipulative father. Who only loves you. And would gladly give his heart and his life for you to be happy.
Akhtar, Ayad. The Who and the What. Back Bay Books/Little, Brown, and Co. New York, NY. 2014. pp. 21-29.
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