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| | Ayub Khan-Din |
 | | Ayub Khan-Din was born in 1961 and grew up in Salford, Manchester. |
 | | Thus, through its plot development, the play addresses issues which are still strongly felt in our contemporary society such as arranged marriages, the status of women and gender difference, the conflict between Christian and Muslim beliefs and the challenges to both coming from the forces of secularisation. |
 | | Paradoxically, George Khan, the first not to follow his own orthodox principles, claims, in the words of cultural studies scholar Paul Gilroy, identity not 'as an ongoing process of self-making and social interaction', but as 'a thing to be possessed and displayed'. |
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