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Misrepresented: Interrupting Muslim & Arab Stereotypes

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Hollywood has had a long history of whitewashing and stereotyping different groups –from brownface to blackface and yellowface. For Arabs and Muslims, persistent clichés throughout Hollywood’s history range from desert scenes with camels and palm trees, and characters cast as barbaric villains, belly dancers, or terrorists among others.

On this edition of Making Contact we’ll meet people confronting racist depictions of Muslims and Arabs in pop culture and politics; and two young women evaluating societal expectations placed on them.

Featuring:

  • Diana Kalaji, student at University of San Francisco
  • Moustafa Bayoumi, author of “This Muslim American Life, Dispatches from the War on Terror.”
Credits

  • Host: Laura Flynn
  • Contributing Producer: Diana Kalaji
  • Associate Producer: Marie Choi
  • Photo Credit: “Community March Against Islamophobia December 13, 2015”, Misha Voloaca
  • Music Credit: BOPD, aint no thing, Vir Noctruna, Stop + Go

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