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Religious and cultural tensions escalate when an African Islamic woman has an affair with a white American agnostic man. | dG1fRUJISld5UHRQc0k

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00:00I'm focusing on how the idea of predestination shaped society,

00:05how it affected politics, culture.

00:07Yeah, yeah, I get it.

00:08Philosophical spread of Calvinism across Western Europe.

00:12I guess I'm obsessing over this

00:14because it's my last paper as a student.

00:16If you give it too much power, it will control you.

00:19Do you understand that you are wasting your time

00:22on a Ph.D. that is essentially worthless?

00:25You don't even act interested in men.

00:28That's because it's rare to find one who's interesting.

00:31Name, please?

00:32Ara Jalali.

00:33I go to school with you.

00:35We're in the same department, Ben Johnson.

00:38Ah, my faith in Allah has been a source of strength

00:42and peace for me.

00:44I'm agnostic, I don't have a religion.

00:46Something that saves me from drowning when I'm at my lowest.

00:49Do you want to maybe meet up again?

00:51Uh...

00:53Sure, okay.

00:55I'm sorry.

00:56Start hanging out with a new friend.

00:59Well, what's her name?

01:01Ara.

01:02Everything that has happened or will happen

01:06could not have unfolded in any other way.

01:09What we do causes things to happen.

01:11Be careful with her.

01:13We only experience love through Allah.

01:16Ara, this is going to make you an outcast in our community.

01:20You know that, right?

01:21I was torn between what I wanted and God.

01:24I didn't think I could have both.

01:26You're better than this.

01:27Mom, I just need some time alone with him to figure some things out.

01:30Are you going to marry this man?

01:32Have children with him?

01:34You don't want to get married?

01:36No, not right now.

01:37You ever want kids?

01:38Uh...

01:39One day, yeah.

01:41It could be a nightmare now, though.

01:42Jeez.

01:43I was accepted into Georgetown Law.

01:45I wanted to see if you would come with me.

01:49It's very early in your first trimester,

01:51so you have lots of options.

01:54What were you going to write about?

01:56The ripples in the universe.

01:58About how everything that is or will be

02:00are all like ripples in a pond.

02:02All outside our control, and nothing can change them.

02:06Do you believe that?

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