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Hanif Kureishi

Liane Hansen speaks with author Hanif Kureishi (hah-NEEF ur-EE-shee) about his recent novel, "The Black Album," which takes place in ondon in 1989 -- amid a collapsing Berlin Wall and when Islam appears to be on he upsurge. The novel explores Muslims in England and their varying cultural xperiences. (Scribner, 1995).

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