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Ayad Akhtar Biography

Ayad Akhtar (born October 28, 1970) is a Pakistani American playwright, novelist, screenwriter and actor who is best known for his play, Disgraced. The play received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play, and was named the most produced play in America for the 2015–16 Season. Akhtar's work covers various themes including the human condition, love, responsibility, relationships, the American-Muslim experience, economics, immigration, identity, and aspects of culture.[vague]

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I think there is a lot of continuity between the Jewish and the Islamic traditions. We know this historically, though people don't want to talk about that - especially Muslims. There is a common source for both Judaism and Islam, or let's say that Islam finds its source in Judaism. The commonalities of practice and sensibility, ethos and mythos, create a lot of overlap.

Common, Islamic, Mythos, People, Thinking

I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity.

Childhood, Identity, Important, Muslim, Part

I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological discourse that goes around, and we relate to that on an intellectual level.

Intellectual, Issue, Issues, Like, Political, Relate

I don't know what it's like to be Jewish, but I suspect there is some aspect of that: being Jewish is the thing that bonds you as opposed to being Jewish from Poland, or Jewish from Hungary.

Aspect, Bonds, Jewish, Like, Opposed, Thing

Here's the problem: we are living in a time when the act of reading is changing. The nature of a reader's attention is changing. The capacity for deep literary engagement is changing.

Act, Attention, Literary, Problem, Reading

If you want to really deeply touch the viewer or the reader, the theater might be the most powerful way to do it.

Most Powerful, Powerful, Reader, Really Deep, Theater, Touch

Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated by forces that are beyond our control.

Force, Guided, Reality, Sooner, Who We Are

The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.

Happy, Happy Life, Life, Respect, Respect Yourself, Secret

I've always felt a connection to kids who go to church. I think I'm fundamentally a religiously oriented and religiously minded person. It's very easy for me to communicate with people who have that same grounding, that same vocabulary or modality of thinking and expressing themselves.

Church, Easy, Kids, People, Religiously, Thinking

I feel like that religions generally ask the biggest questions. They may not always have the best answers, but they're the zone of human activity that regularly asks the biggest questions.

Answers, Biggest, Feels, May, Religions

I don't want to test that simple sense of being human. I don't want to transform it.

Being Human, Human, Sense, Simple, Transform

I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them.

Literary, Losing, Meaningful, People, Thinking

I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom.

Awareness, Free, Political, Preoccupation

The Quran is many different things, and we also have to see the Quran almost as a secondary source commenting on the Old Testament.

Different, Old, Old Testament, Quran, Secondary, Things

I don't have an ideal reader. I'm trying to reach something simple and, I believe, universal, in every single person.

Believe, Ideal, Person, Simple, Trying, Universal