Tag: noir
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Muslim Noir in Wael Abdelgawad’s ‘Zaid Karim: Private Investigator’
The novel introduces us to Zaid Karim, the titular Palestinian-American detective. Zaid is a struggling private investigator, beleaguered by his failures both personal and professional, in the midst of a marital separation, and largely ostracized from his local Muslim community. Some serendipitous circumstances and calculated schemings later, Zaid finds himself embroiled in a convoluted search…