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Shaheen’s book Reel Bad Arabs, which examines how American motion pictures have stereotyped Arabs and Muslims for more than a century. Quotations emphasize the work’s extensive research, arguing that Hollywood’s portrayals reinforce social injustice and prejudice through vulgar, ignorant plots and persistent screen images. Endorsements describe the book as a definitive, world-class study that should inform future research, reshape critical literacy, and encourage public action toward fairer media representation.","P􀀇ISE FOR REEL BAD A􀀇BS  \n“􀀊e stereotyping of Arabs in American movies is an old story, yet it is a story that, until now, no one has told. Shaheen has broken the silence with a book that will be the indispensable starting point for all future research on this neglected topic. 􀀊e impact, even in summary, of scores of plots, one more vulgar and ignorant than the next, is numbing in its sheer ugliness. Shaheen a)acks the stereotype not by denouncing it but, far more devastatingly, by documenting it ”  \nãJack Miles, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and columnist at  \n[Beliefnet.com](Beliefnet.com)  \n“􀀊is world-class presentation sets the facts straight about Hollywood’s Arabs. Jack Shaheen, an articulate arbiter of fair play, has wri)en a sterling book. It is a major contribution to the literature of 􀀘lm, and will change the way you think about movies and slanderous screen images ”  \nã Casey Kasem, radio and TV personality  \n“If you cut us, do we not bleed? I ask all my Jewish friends to come to the defense of their Semitic cousins ”  \nãF. Murray Abraham, Academy Award-winning actor  \n“Shaheen, through his extensive research, exposes the social injustice reinforced by Hollywood with regards to the Arab community. One can only be taken aback by the evidence of prejudice and insensitivity, which Shaheen illustrates... I hope this work will serve to sensitize those of us who can in􀀛uence these images and, thereby the perceptions ofour audience, to help to right a long overdue injustice”  \nãPeter Macgregor-Sco+, producer, A Perfect Murder and 􀀊e Fugitive  \n“A must-read!... [Shaheen’s] book should be in all libraries nationwide, especially those of government officials and 􀀘lmmakers ”  \nã Camelia Anwar Sadat  \n“􀀊e relentless cinematic assault on Arabs has been our culture’s most insidious yet closeted disgraceãuntil now. Jack Shaheen’s landmark work castsa penetrating spotlight on the movies that have shaped our in􀀘nitely distorted and warped views ofArab and Muslim life. With impeccable research, Shaheen combines a scholarly breadth, the irony of a keen social observer, and an advocate’s passion. Reel Bad Arabs is the de􀀘nitive text on Arab screen images.  \nãRenee Tajima-Pena, producer-director, Sundance award-winning  \n􀀘lm, My America  \n“If you think overt racism in America is dead, think again. Jack Shaheen has shown in depressing detail in his book, Reel Bad Arabs, that anti-Semitism in motion pictures is more virulent than ever provided the Semites being portrayed are Arabs. Films from Exodus (1960) to Rules of Engagement (2000) have relentlessly stereotyped Arabs and Muslims in ways that would 􀀘t seamlessly into Der Stürmer and the 􀀘lms ofNazi Germany”  \nãJames E. Akins, Middle East specialist and former US diplomat  \n“[A] rousing wake-up call. Anybody concerned about education, racial justice, democracy, and critical literacy should buy and read this book, and then pass it on to a friend ”  \nãHenry A. Giroux, author of 􀀊e Mouse 􀀊at Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence  \n“For years, with rare passion and eloquence, Jack Shaheen has raised a constant, resonating voice on behalf of the Arab in America. An undaunted warrior devoted to righting the wrongs of a distortion that have too long persisted, Shaheen has displayed unwavering dedication to the cause of fair play for ethnic groups who have suffered from misrepresentation by our 􀀘lm industryãArabs most of all. For his courage in protecting the integrity of an entire people against the tides of prejudice in American mass culture, we are all deeply in his debt ”  \nãAsaad Kelada, television and stage director  \n“When presented with this vast compendium about movie Arabs, I was at 􀀘rst delighted. But all too soon my emotions turned to sadness, then to anger. Were this book about movie Africans, Asians, Jews, Italians, Latinos, or Native Americans, the American public would be outraged. 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