Cinema

Planet of The Arabs!

by Haitham Sabbah October 8, 2006

Official selection of the Sundance Film Festival 2005 A trailer-esque montage spectacle of Hollywood’s relentless vilification and dehumanization of Arabs and Muslims. Inspired by the book “Reel Bad Arabs” by Dr. Jack Shaheen. Out of 1000 films that have Arab & Muslim characters (from the year 1896 to 2000) 12 were positive depictions, 52 were [...]

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First Real Cinema Theater in Saudi

by Haitham Sabbah October 17, 2005

This report (Arabic) says that Riyadh will have it’s first cinema theater launched by the first day of Eid Alfitr. The report says that the hotel hosted cinema will be big enough to take 1400 viewer at a time and will have three shows a day. That’s all the good news. The bad funny news [...]

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