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Article: Play Highlights Muslim Family's Beliefs
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- June 8, 2006
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LEONARD PALLATS, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
06-08-2006
Dateline: ATLANTA
As the college-age daughter of Egyptian immigrants living in Starkville, Miss., Suehyla El-Attar felt isolated.
"The only idea I had was, 'I just need to get out of here,'" said El-Attar, who turned those feelings of isolation and culture clash into a play, "The Perfect Prayer," developed and on view through June 25 at the Horizon Theatre Company.
"The Perfect Prayer" is the semiautobiographical story of a college student named Hadia who lives in the South and who wants to break away from her strict Muslim parents.
"It's not that she has a problem with Islam," El-Attar said. "It's a problem with the culture. ...