Day: December 17, 2011

Video

Me the Muslim Next Door : Home

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Me the Muslim Next Door : Home. The webseries “Me, the Muslim Next Door” introduces you to Dania, Eduardo, Jamilla, Laila, Mehdi, Rizwan and Suad, seven young Canadian Muslims living in Montreal and Toronto. We invite you to experience their reality through 24 segments of video, audio, and photos that sheds light on what it's like to be young, Canadian and Muslim. Enjoy a total of more than 120 minutes of content that breaks down stereotypes and delves into their personal stories.

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Television

Red Room: The True Threat Brewing Inside American-Muslim Communities: Women

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I like Samina’s piece because we have not been having the gender conversation at all. I think it does show the structural sexism that is not unique to Arabs/Muslims/Catholics/etc.. I think she also ends on the right note, that this show may not represent everyone’s experience, but it’s creating a lot of good conversations. Red Room: The True Threat Brewing Inside American-Muslim Communities: Women. The truth is, we need Nina Bazzy on T.V. as much as we need Suehaila showing us that she’s not the stereotypical conservative we envision when we imagine a hijabi. Together with superstitious Samira and rebellious Shadia,…

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