Another Website

18Oct09

I found this website: www.arabfilm.com
You can get all different kinds of films about the Middle East, Islam, etc. and they ship internationally. I love this.

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Speaking Of Captain Majid…

12Sep09

I try not to say this very often but: LOL! This brings back memories!

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Shhh!

05Sep09

Last night my mom and I went to the cinema to watch a film with my grandma. Before the film started, there was a very serious and very long “Please silence your cellphone” ad. While I think it’s important and courteous to others to not talk during the movie, silence your mobile, and refrain from [...]

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Bab Al Hara And Others

04Sep09

Middle East hungry for TV during Ramadan
By Daniela Deane
For CNN

LONDON, England (CNN) — Ramadan, that holy month of fasting and dawn-to-dusk abstinence, is a key period in the Muslim calendar apart from its standing as one of the five Pillars of Islam.
More typically associated with praying, fasting and religious contemplation, it’s also the month [...]

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Amreeka

01Sep09

It seems that in the past few years, more films about the Middle East and Arabs are coming out. And I mean good ones, not “Arabs are all terrorists and scary” etc. (I’m not even going to get started on all that.)
This movie starts showing on Sept. 4th. Here’s the trailer for Amreeka:
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Wow

20Jul09

I love American commercials. They make me laugh - at about 1:00, Brooke says, “…for inadequate or not enough lashes…”. In case you didn’t know what inadequate means…

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AFHV

18Jul09

Last night, my family and I tried to buy a movie from the cable’s On Demand. We had lots of problems and called the company – nothing worked. So about an hour later, we just lounged on the couch and watched America’s Funniest Home Videos. The really old ones. Where the women in the audience are [...]

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Shu Rayak/Rayik?

29Jun09

I like this. What do you think?

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The Year Was 1924…

26Jun09

The Damascene Box Office of 1924 by Carole Bechara
It all started with two puppets, made of rough leather, called Karakoz and Iwath. Speaking in a Damascene dialect, they mirrored average Syrians in the Ottoman Empire, and were shown as shadow images from behind a screen at coffee shops during the medieval years of the Ottoman [...]

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Jai Ho!

27Apr09

I saw Slumdog Millionaire about a month ago, I guess. Yikes, time seems to be going quickly…
Good movie, inspirational and all…Won 8 Oscars…etc., etc. My favorite thing about the movie, though, wasn’t the “feel-good” feeling you’re supposedly supposed to feel after you see it. It was that for once, in a Western film, Muslims weren’t [...]

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