Tamasha Theatre’s My Name Is… Sheds light on devastating fall-out from mixed-race marriage

August 14, 2014 In August 2006, 12-year-old Molly Campbell, a mixed-race schoolgirl “disappeared” from Stornoway, in the Outer Hebrides. Her father, British-Pakistani Sajad Rana, who was divorced from her mother, Louise Campbell, had moved back to Pakistan with his older children and wanted Molly to join them. Louise was terrified she would lose her remaining

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Ayad Akhtar: On Muslim identity, and life in America

July 17, 2014 To appreciate the relevance of playwright Ayad Akhtar’s work, you need look no further than two eerie coincidences that shadowed his debut drama, “Disgraced.” The play, which portrays the downfall of a Muslim American lawyer, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 2013. The day the award was announced, two Muslims deposited

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