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Hanif Kureishi’s story of Islamist temptation, “The Black Album”, adapted for stage

researcher15 years ago14 years ago02 mins

The British writer Hanif Kureishi decided to mark the 20th anniversary of the Rushdie affair by adapting for the stage his 1995 second novel “The Black Album”. The novel is set in 1988/89 and the Rushdie affair and radicalization of young Muslims are its central themes. The Black Album charts the cultural and political development…

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Theatre Review: Hanif Kureishi’s play “The Black Album” at Cottesloe Theatre, London

Euro-Islam15 years ago15 years ago02 mins

Hanif Kureishi has turned his own vibrant 1995 novel into a play. The result is a busy, hectic affair that raises all kinds of issues about religious and political faith, fatwas and censorship and the purpose of art. But, as so often with adaptations, you get the bones without the thickness of texture that was…

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