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The 11 Rules for Writing Muslim Characters - Moustafa Bayoumi

"Be sure to have at least one good Muslim character, preferably one good for each bad one. People will then say your film or book is 'balanced...'" Moustafa Bayoumi reads aloud eleven tongue-in-cheek rules for writing Muslim characters from his newest book, This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror (NYU Press 2015), at an event at the Asian American Writers' Workshop in New York City.

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2015
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Asian American Writers' Workshop
Moustafa Bayoumi
This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror
NYU Press

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