(15 min, 50 sec)
Written and Directed by Jamil Khoury
Release Date
October 23, 2012
Premiere Venue
Pierce Hall at The Historic Chicago Temple Building, 77 W Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
“The Imam and The Homosexual” probes the “strange bedfellows” political alliance between Imam Mustafa Khan (played by Khurram Mozaffar), spiritual leader of a besieged Naperville, IL mosque, and Carl Baker (played by Nicholas Cimino), the gay son of the imam’s chief nemesis. As Imam Mustafa struggles to reconcile his support for civil rights with his religious and cultural objections to homosexuality, Carl imagines the Muslim and LGBT communities uniting against their common enemies.
Playwright Jamil Khoury has written "The Imam and The Homosexual" as part of the development process for his play-in-progress Mosque Alert. This is not a scene that will end up in the actual stage and video versions of Mosque Alert, but rather it will inform the world of the play, and will create context, relational dynamics, and perhaps even language that Jamil will cull from when writing the play.
Learn more at www.mosquealert.org.
Cast
Khurram Mozaffar | Imam Mustafa Khan
Nicholas Cimino | Carl Baker
Production Team
Playwright and Director
Jamil Khoury
Executive Producer
Malik Gillani
Video Editor and Original Music
Deann Baker