Arab in America -The Movie!

More Press! Providence Journal & NPR-Atlanta!!!

// April 14th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Making Arab

PBA NPR

Earlier today, NPR Atlanta (PBA) broadcasted a news piece on our Link TV win intercut with soundbytes from Colin Ferri and myself!  To listen to it online, check out the PBA Website here!  Also, Colin Ferri got featured in his hometown newspaper, The Providence Journal!  We hope you enjoy reading/listening to them!  Thanks again to everyone who’s covered our film, as well as tons of thanks to Link TV, One Nation For All, and Fenton Communications – especially Yasmin Hamidi for all their work in getting this contest covered and featured!

-Nabil

Press, Press, Blogs, & More Press!

// April 10th, 2009 // No Comments » // Everything Else, Making Arab

Saphir News: Arab in America - Front Page, Baby

We’ve got some exciting news today!  Arab in America has now been featured on The Huffington Post, Saphir News, and The Athens Banner-Herald!  Not to mention countless and countless internet blogs!  So, for those of you who like to keep count, we’re going to link you to all the stories below!

PRESS

USA Today
The Huffington Post
NPR Atlanta-PBA
The Providence Journal
Saphir News (french translation)
Air America’s State of Belief
The Athens Banner-Herald

BLOGS

Beliefnet
Yahoo Movies News
Filmstew.com
Progressive Islam
Illume Magazine
Alt Muslim
One Nation For All
Minareti (french translation)
Faisal Kutty
Muxlim.com
Queer Isn’t It?
South Florida Drifters
Beauty and the East
Political Peon
Jannah.org
Arabesque (french translation)
Meefedia
Milk and Cookies
Muslim Women
Infocus News.net

And the most humbling thing out of all this coverage is Wake Forest University’s new course MLS 833, Re-imaging Islam in the West, where Arab in America will be discussed, critiqued, and debated alongside my hero’s essay/book/documentary: Jack Shaheen’s Reel Bad Arabs.  Check out the link below to go see more information on WFU’s new course.

Wake Forest University | Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

Also, NPR-Atlanta interviewed Colin Ferri and I last week, so expect that interview to be coming soon, too!  If there are other links that I’ve missed, please – let me know by sending me an email!  nabouharb(a)fiveonfifty.com.  Thanks a bunch and keep checking back for more info!

-Nabil

Colin’s history of Arab in America: The Short (Part Two)

// April 7th, 2009 // No Comments » // Making Arab

Let’s pick up where we left off…

This is Colin.

“Tell me about that idea you had again.” I say to Nabil as we walk to the Motel.

“Well, it’s about an Arab-American guy who can’t get a job, and it’s about his struggle to make it.”

I was a little interested at this point, but still in a bad mood, owing to the fact that we were going to be stuck in Florida for the night. So, Nabil and I made it to the Motel. We checked into our tiny, smelly room with rock hard beds and fornication stained sheets. Glamorous to say the least. And that night we had the first creative meeting about the short “Arab in America.” I don’t know what exactly we spoke of, or what specific idea’s were thrown around that night… but one can surmise that a work of genius was being created in that stifling motel room.

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