![]() Whereas Amir’s firsthand experience with Islam makes him critical of the religion, his wife and friends dismiss and belittle his opinions, which deepens his resentment. And when the conversation turns into a heated debate about Islam, Amir struggles to keep it together. Soon after this, he and Emily have Isaac (an art curator) and Jory (Amir’s work colleague) over for dinner. They also question his associations with Islam, and this incident that brings Amir’s repressed emotions to the surface. It portrays him as supporting the imam, so they run a background check on Amir and find out that his name is Abdullah (an Arabic name meaning “servant of Allah”) and not Kapoor (an Indian name) like he told him. When Amir’s nephew Abe and Emily pressure Amir into speaking with a newspaper about Imam Fareed (a Muslim cleric who’s been falsely accused of funding terrorism), Amir’s bosses at the law firm end up reading the article. Amir tries to suppress these feelings, but he often yells, breaks things, and drinks to excess. He’s also terrified of being discriminated against and resentful of the way well-meaning people like Emily are unintentionally racist and patronizing toward him. Although he and his wife, Emily, lead an affluent lifestyle, Amir is so haunted by his strict Muslim upbringing and ashamed of his ethnic identity that he’s unable to be happy. Amir Kapoor, a successful Pakistani American lawyer of about 40, is the play’s protagonist.
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