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Eli, a Muslim convert who has become an earnest and progressive imam, thinks that he has arranged to meet Zarina, a brilliant and beautiful woman whom he met previously at an academic lecture, for coffee, after re-meeting her on a Muslim dating website. Instead, however, he is confronted by Zarina’s Pakistani father, Afzal, a friendly but intimidating interrogator. Afzal says that due to his family’s conservative beliefs, he and Zarina mutually agreed that he should first meet with Eli and give
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Afzal: Eli?
Eli (Surprised): Yes?
Afzal (going to shake hands): Afzal, Afzal Jatt.
Eli: Do I know you?
Afzal: Zarina’s father.
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Afzal: I’m not going to find some wall in your bedroom covered with pictures of my daughter on it.
Eli: Whoa. Of course not.
Afzal: Because if it’s there, I will find it. I will.
Eli: I don’t doubt that, sir.
Afzal: How much money do you make?
Akhtar, Ayad. The Who and the What. Back Bay Books/Little, Brown, and Co. New York, NY. 2014. pp. 13-20.
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