What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
