The Quran is many different things, and we also have to see the Quran almost as a secondary source commenting on the Old Testament.

Here's the problem: we are living in a time when the act of reading is changing. The nature of a reader's attention is changing. The capacity for deep literary engagement is changing.

If you want to really deeply touch the viewer or the reader, the theater might be the most powerful way to do it.

The Quran is many different things, and we also have to see the Quran almost as a secondary source commenting on the Old Testament.

I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity.

I don't have an ideal reader. I'm trying to reach something simple and, I believe, universal, in every single person.

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.