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I will start back in my childhood. Half the time i grew up in the midwest and have the time in the middle east and other islamic countries. I spent my childhood shuttling between suburban st. Louis and places like chiron and kabul and cairo. I got interested in islamic issues kind of the aesthetically, and then i went on to study them. As a journalist i was frustrated because as much as i tried to write about them i found that the narrative kind of bifurcated. One is that i was writing about strongmen with kalashnikovs, and oppressed women. Those were the two trope i would inevitably get written about. That was when i was writing news stories. When i went on to feature stories, its slightly widened. I was able to write about angst like pakistani punk rock bands or halal energy drinks, or muslim european professionals. And that gave a little bit more bandwidth to the terrorism and bailed woman narrative. Even then it was like, instead of saying, muslims, they are the other, i was saying ....

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