The Signal, 12.02.11 & 12.03.11, Rohina Malik’s “Unveiled,” Susan Muaddi Darraj’s “Identity Crisis,” Atomic Book picks, and “1000 Fathoms”

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December 2nd & 3rd, 2011, on The Signal

“Fear and ignorance are the true weapons of mass destruction.”  So says playwright and actress Rohina Malik, whose one-woman play, “Unveiled,” challenges audiences to confront stereotypes about Muslim women.  We’ll talk with Malik as she prepares to stage her production this weekend at Baltimore’s Theatre Project.

Writer Susan Muaddi Darraj has been confronting stereotypes all her life, from another angle.  She’s a Palestinian-American Christian, and she joins us with an essay she calls “Identity Crisis”

Plus:  Benn Ray from Atomic Books has holiday reading suggestions, including cookbooks from some of the world’s hottest celebrity chefs

And we get preview of a new radio project called ‘One Thousand Fathoms’