Destroyed by the Legacy of 9/11 ; Staying In
Evening Standard - London › January 13, 2005
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IT IS morning in a northern town, and in the Asian quarter, the community comes awake. Children get ready for school, women and men don their traditional robes. And while her father and brother open the mosque, up on the edge of town, Yasmin is behind a dry stone wall hurriedly exchanging her sari and headscarf for T-shirt, tight jeans and a pair of kitten heels.
Because she doesn't want to be what she calls "TP" - "typical Paki".See the full content of this document
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Destroyed by the Legacy of 9/11 ; Staying In
This one-off drama about a Muslim woman in the north of England is scripted by Simon Beaufoy, who gave us The Full Monty, so it has plenty of down-to-earth humour. But it is also bittersweet and poignant. T...
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