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My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.

My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.

I have one identity, and that's Israeli and Jewish. I don't view myself as an American citizen.

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.

I try to associate myself as just being myself - and being a person, an American citizen, going out there every day and just trying to be successful.

I don't know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, it's very difficult to find.

You have to go through a mental and emotional process to recognize who you really are. I finally recognized that I cannot be defined by one country.

Who are we? Whom do we want to become? How do we perceive ourselves? How do we want to be perceived? These questions of identity are often at the core of our own internal struggles. Resolve them, and you are closer to being free.

There's so many things that people do on a daily basis that they do as a way of defining who they are. But really, what defines who you are is when circumstances push you to the edge.