The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
If my daughter wanted to wear a headscarf and dress in a religiously conservative way, I would be heartbroken. But if she… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
In a sense, by closing off the idea that young Muslims, and particularly young Muslim men, can be American heroes, it increases… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
My mother has been to Mecca to perform her hajj; my dad hasn't. I come from a very liberal family, so even… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Most Muslims do not 'choose' Islam in the way that they choose to become doctors or lawyers, nor even in the way… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
If an American teenager were to come to Lahore, they'd have wildly different experiences depending on whom they met. They could party… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The ethnocultural connotations of the burkini ban are very strong. It's as absurd as mandating that women have to go topless on… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
So in many ways, the bombing at the end of this year and the terrorist attack of last year in Peshawar have… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
You know, very often, if you look at the kinds of communications that they're getting in an ISIS recruiting video, the videos… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
A beard is something that is almost like a mirror to the viewer. When someone sees you wearing a beard, they're seeing something in… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“I met her eyes, and for the first time I perceived that there was something broken behind them, like a tiny crack in a… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“muscularity, made more pronounced by her gauntness, and the near-inanimate” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“In this group, everyone was foreign, and so, in a sense, no one was.” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me then - and to be honest, sir, seems to me still - that America was engaged only in posturing. As… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think fiction allows you to inhabit new domains and it's you, the reader living in that domain for a few days that results… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Often, during my stay in your country, such comparisons troubled me. In fact, they did more than trouble me: they made me resentful. Four… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
