If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
It's important to have a non-nostalgic view and say, let's look forward, because if we don't, all we'll hear are voices telling… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
In some contexts in Pakistan maybe a beard is negative. It depends. And in some contexts in America maybe a beard is… — 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
When people, particularly young people and especially young men, can't imagine themselves as heroes in narratives that they construct for themselves, they… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The paralysis that we have right now when we think about migration is partly because we can't imagine what the world would… — 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
