Arabs, From Black Lives to Black Friday!
As Americans are celebrating their Thanksgiving holiday, which marks the start of the shopping season, with many stores opening on Thanksgiving night for sales and deals, people are camping in front of Macy’s, Target, and the Mall of America to be the first to grab the Black Friday specials.
The challenge of telling the Arab/Muslim cultural story in the US is getting progressively more difficult. For years, I have been focused on bringing to the American people real stories about Arabs and Muslims, but my voice and the collective voice of the Arab / Muslim community is being lost in our current environment of racism and bigotry. The only loud Arab/Muslim voices that we hear about or that are commented on in the news are the ugly ones, the voice of Saddam, Bin Laden and lately major Nidal . American people are consistently exposed to negative stories of Arabs and Muslims. Now we need your support to tell different story.
The Christian man at the Muslim cemetery.
II. The documentary film inspired by the story of Kyriakos, a Coptic Egyptian who had live in my predominately Muslim village for years. The documentary followed his life and death trail, intercut with flashbacks from my own past and present as a minority Muslim living in the US, visiting the same places, talking to people there. As these two stories are weaved together a new story will emerge – the story of those who lived in this peaceful village of 5,000 people..!
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