Raisins Not Virgins

01 June 2010
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When Sahar Salam’s mother called her early one morning to tell her about a prospective suitor, she steeled herself for the bad news. She stared out the window at the rows of tenement buildings behind her studio apartment and refused, for the most part, to listen. If she had, this is what she would have heard:

Fordham Law School..

From a good family.

Sharbari Ahmed is a filmmaker and writer. He has published fiction in The Gettysburg Review, Catamaran, The Asian PacificAmerican Journal and the anthology The New Anthem: A Subcontinent in Its Own Words amongst others.

Keywords: fiction Sharbari Ahmed Tribeca Film Festival script
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