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Abstract
Abstract : This thesis discusses the social aspects of immigrant Muslims’ drama in the aftermath of 9/11in three prominent plays, namely Yussef El Guindi’s Back of the Throat (2006), Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced (2012), and Amir Nizar Zuabi’s Oh My Sweet Land: A Love Story from Syria (2014). Such ferocious events have divided the Western society and atrociously deteriorated the social cohesion within such a multicultural society. The attack has promoted resistance towards Muslims that eventually trapped them in an exclusionary and alienating realm. The thesis encompasses the agony which Muslims feel as they are torn between two worlds: either to stick to their indigenous cultural identity or to embrace the Western culture. Muslims, as a diasporic minority, suffer from marginalization, stereotyping, estrangement, and otherness at the hands of the dominant society, i.e., the society of the privileged whites. The thesis delves into another stage at which Muslims attempt to engage in society through sheer endeavors of adaptation, assimilation, and hybridity. Despite the unprecedented prejudice, social profiling, and racial discrimination Muslims confront, they seek fruitful interaction in the country of residence. Consequently, they foster duality in an attempt to integrate and hybridize. Yet, in the midst of their striving attempts to establish a peaceful dialogue in the West, immigrant Muslims remain invisible and eventually incorporate antihero roles. Hence, the thesis proposes tolerating differences, mitigating cultural gaps, and adopting common grounds in order that those standing on paralleled pillars can peacefully coexist.