The next attack is coming from some white guy who's got a gun and needs a nap. HEIDI ARMBRUSTER: (as Emily Kapoor) See, I totally disagree. Here's a clip from 'Disgraced.' This is a performance at the Lincoln Center in New York.ĪASIF MANDVI: (as Amir Kapoor) The next terrorist attack is coming from someone who, kind of, sort of, looks like me. The story centers around Amir Kapoor, a successful Pakistani-American lawyer who has no time for Islam. That dilemma has been especially powerful recently for Muslim-Americans and those tensions are at the heart of 'Disgraced,' a play that recently won the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
That's the story that's as old as pretty much the country itself. Author Elizabeth Becker talks about the explosion in travel since the Cold War.īut, first, we're talking about traveling between cultural worlds here in the U.S., the struggle between honoring your religious and ethnic roots and also embracing an American identity. Coming up, the story of one of the world's biggest and most destructive industries, tourism.
