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Shaheen’s Reel Bad Arabs as a research-driven, documentary challenge to long-standing stereotyping of Arabs and Muslims in American film. The commentary emphasizes the book’s evidentiary method, tracing patterns across many movies and showing how cinematic portrayals reinforce prejudice and social injustice. Reviewers describe it as an indispensable starting point for future study, a wake-up call for education and racial justice, and a definitive resource for identifying harmful screen images while advocating fair representation.","PRAISE FOR REEL BAD ARABS  \n“The 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. The impact, even in summary, of scores of plots, one more vulgar and ignorant than the next, is numbing in its sheer ugliness. Shaheen attacks the stereotype not by denouncing it but, far more devastatingly, by documenting it.”  \n—Jack Miles, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and columnist at  \n[Beliefnet.com](Beliefnet.com)  \n“This world-class presentation sets the facts straight about Hollywood’s Arabs. Jack Shaheen, an articulate arbiter of fair play, has written a sterling book. It is a major contribution to the literature of ɹlm, and will change the way you think about movies and slanderous screen images.”  \n—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.”  \n—F. 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 inɻuence these  \nimages and, thereby the perceptions of our audience, to help to right a long overdue injustice.”  \n—Peter Macgregor-Scott, producer, A Perfect Murder and The Fugitive  \n“A must-read!... [Shaheen’s] book should be in all libraries nationwide, especially those of government oɽcials and ɹlmmakers.”  \n—Camelia Anwar Sadat  \n“The relentless cinematic assault on Arabs has been our culture’s most insidious yet closeted disgrace—until now. Jack Shaheen’s landmark work casts a penetrating spotlight on the movies that have shaped our inɹnitely distorted and warped views of Arab 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 deɹnitive text on Arab screen images.  \n—Renee Tajima-Pena, producer-director, Sundance award-winning ɹlm, 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 ɹt seamlessly into Der Stürmer and the ɹlms of Nazi Germany.”  \n—James 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.”  \n—Henry A. Giroux, author of The Mouse That 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 suʃered from misrepresentation by our ɹlm industry—Arabs 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.”  \n—Asaad Kelada, television and stage director  \n“When presented with this vast compendium about movie Arabs, I was at ɹrst 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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