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• Breaking Fast

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  Directed by Mike Mosallam. "Mo, a practicing Muslim living in West Hollywood, is learning to navigate life post heartbreak. Enter Kal, an All-American guy who surprises Mo by offering to break fast with him during the holy month of Ramadan."

• Bohemian Rhapsody

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  Starring Rami Malek. "Elliot, a brilliant but unstable cyber-security engineer and vigilante hacker, becomes a key figure in a complex game of global chaos when he and his shadowy allies try to take down the corrupt corporation his company is paid…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Amreeka

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  Directed by Cherien Dabis. "This is an enjoyable tale of a woman and her son moving from occupied Palestinian territory to the United States. They face struggles admist the US invasion of Iraq."

• May In The Summer

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  "Written and directed by Cherien Dabis, he also directed another Palestinian-setting film, "Amreeka." One of the new crop of promising young filmmakers in the region, this new film of his explores the angst of modern-day usually transplanted young…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Where do we go now?

  Et maintenant, on va où? = Wa-hallā' la-wayn?

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  Directed by and starring Nadine Labaki. "So very relevant to the current issues of political/religious/cultural divisiveness here and globally. The director approaches the very seriousness of the problem cleverly in a disarming humorous way to drive…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Clash

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  Directed by Mohamed Diab. "Set entirely in an 8m police truck, a number of detainees from different political and social backgrounds are brought together by fate, during the turmoil that followed the ousting of former president Morsi from power."

• ان سير

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  "A very poignant drama depicting one day in the life of a family (and a neighbour) trapped by a sniper during the Syrian civil war. Bitter, unpalatable choices, made by a mother doing her best to protect her family and a neighbour and her newborn."…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mr. Robot. Season 1

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  Created by Sam Esmail. Starring Rami Malek. "Elliot, a brilliant but unstable cyber-security engineer and vigilante hacker, becomes a key figure in a complex game of global chaos when he and his shadowy allies try to take down the corrupt…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Day of the Falcon

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  "About the start and finish of the unifying war on oil development with the West vs tradition religious values in the Middle East during the early 1930's. The love story, Quran quotes and search for water fit nicely as well."

• Koran by Heart

  One Chance to Remember

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  "In this 80-minute documentary, three 10-year old children leave their native countries to participate in one of the Islamic world's most famous competitions, a test of memory and recitation known as The International Holy Koran Competition. "

• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

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  Directed by Callie Khouri. "Playwright Siddalee Walker is on the verge of opening a new play. She gives a magazine interview in which she discusses her unhappy childhood. Her mother is furious and cuts her off. Her mother's friends, who as children…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Thelma & Louise

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  Written by Callie Khouri. ""Thelma and Louise" is so much more than a road-trip movie, or a girls-in-trouble bonding flick. As director Ridley Scott himself once said, the landscape itself is one of the main protagonists. Add Hans Zimmer's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Reel Bad Arabs

  How Hollywood Vilifies a People

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  "This groundbreaking documentary dissects a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged from the earliest days of silent film to today's biggest Hollywood blockbusters."

• The Feeling of Being Watched

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  Directed by Assia Boundaoui. "In the Arab-American neighborhood outside of Chicago where journalist and filmmaker Assia Boundaoui grew up, most of her neighbors think they have been under surveillance for over a decade. While investigating their…Read moreRead more of this annotation