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Real Bad Hollywood: How Western film demonizes Arabs and Muslims | Art Threat | Political Art Magazine

Posted on May 5th, 2007 by martijn.
Categories: Arts & culture.

Real Bad Hollywood: How Western film demonizes Arabs and Muslims | Art Threat | Political Art Magazine
Real Bad Hollywood: How Western film demonizes Arabs and Muslims
Reel Bad Arabs: Aladdin gets Racist

Aladdin. Back to the Future. True Lies. It isn’t everyday that you hear these three movies mentioned in the same breath, but for Dr. Jack Shaheen the link is clear. For thirty years, Shaheen, professor emeritus of mass communication at Southern Illinois University, has been studying the misrepresentation of Arabs and Muslims in film, particularly movies coming out of Hollywood. His conclusion: that Arabs and Muslims are the single most maligned and attacked group in the history of film. “If the case went before a jury, they’ll be out for 30 seconds and they will agree,” he says over the phone from his home in Illinois. Over the next few months, viewers can be will be the jury themselves as Shaheen tours North America with Reel Bad Arabs, the 2006 documentary based on his 2001 book of the same name.

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Real Bad Hollywood: How Western film demonizes Arabs and Muslims | Art Threat | Political Art Magazine

Posted on May 5th, 2007 by .
Categories: Arts & culture.

Real Bad Hollywood: How Western film demonizes Arabs and Muslims | Art Threat | Political Art Magazine
Real Bad Hollywood: How Western film demonizes Arabs and Muslims
Reel Bad Arabs: Aladdin gets Racist

Aladdin. Back to the Future. True Lies. It isn’t everyday that you hear these three movies mentioned in the same breath, but for Dr. Jack Shaheen the link is clear. For thirty years, Shaheen, professor emeritus of mass communication at Southern Illinois University, has been studying the misrepresentation of Arabs and Muslims in film, particularly movies coming out of Hollywood. His conclusion: that Arabs and Muslims are the single most maligned and attacked group in the history of film. “If the case went before a jury, they’ll be out for 30 seconds and they will agree,” he says over the phone from his home in Illinois. Over the next few months, viewers can be will be the jury themselves as Shaheen tours North America with Reel Bad Arabs, the 2006 documentary based on his 2001 book of the same name.

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Cracks in the Iraqi Al Qaeda Front

Posted on May 5th, 2007 by .
Categories: International Terrorism.

 Al Qaeda has been trying to form a unified front against the US in Iraq. For a while this seemed quite successful but now the front seems to fall apart. There was already a public dispute between the Sunni Islamic Army of Iraq (IAI) and Al-Qaida’s “Islamic State”. Recently the IAI together with other Sunni militant groups (the Mujahideen Army and the Ansar Al-Sunnah Army) have joined forces in a new coalition seperate from that of Al Qaeda: The Reformation and Jihad Front (RJF).

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