My name is Mo, short for Mohammed, I’m a second-generation immigrant cliché: Twenty-eight, disenfranchised, well educated. My mother is white, but I’m all Paki. My father owns a corner shop where I work, And I owe my allegiance to global Umma. My nation’s the Republic of Islam. So sings Mo, one of four would-be suicide bombers in a new opera Babur in London.  Opera it may be, The Marriage of Figaro it ain’t. Babur in London explores issues of culture, identity, terrorism and history by […]

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