Film: The Exonerated

The Exonerated is a dramatic reading of transcripts and letters of six wrongfully convicted and imprisoned US citizens. Supplement this by reading Actual Innocence by Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld & Jim Dwyer and this article at The Nation magazine from June 18, 2012.

Recommendation: Imperial Cities of Morocco

Imperial Cities of Morocco by Mohomed Metalsi, Cecile Treal, Jean-Michel Ruiz is a wonderful collection of photographs of architectural landmarks in Fes, Marrakesh, Meknes and Rabat in Morocco. Introductory text accompanies the photos. If you are traveling to these places or simply like architecture, check this book out. If you're exhibiting something related to Morocco or screening the film Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World, have this book for the public to thumb through. If you have an office with a waiting area, this would be a good book for that as well.
 

Journal for Kids: Discover

Arwa alerted her blog readers to an article she published in a journal for Muslim children. I'd appreciate any subscribers sharing their thoughts on the journal.

To read: From Slave Ship to Harvard by James Johnston

From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family by James H. Johnston. You can listen to his May 22, 2012 interview on Gist of Freedom.

PBS's Need to Know Visits Clarkston, GA - Multiculturalism in the US South

I had reviewed a book about refugees in Clarkston, GA. Maria Hinojosa presented a Need to Know episode on the continued transition from a nearly one-hundred percent white town to a town where more than one-third of the residents are foreign-born.

Documentary Film: Brother Rob

I saw the documentary film Brother Bob, which covered Terry Jones's trial of the Quran, on the Documentary Channel.

Science - Ecology Books Translated into Arabic

I'm thinking of working to get some popular books on ecology and other scientific subjects translated into Arabic.

This blog entry, which I hope to update, contains links to books I've already found that meet this description.

I'm also keeping this list up-to-date on Delicious.

• Valuing the environment : economics for a sustainable future by David Glover - Arabic translation
• by David Glover - Arabic translation 
• List of David Glover's books translated into Arabic on Worldcat.org
• Series of books entitled "How does it work?" for young adult readers
• Straphanger by Taras Grescoe -- Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile -- Arabic translation
• Book by Frank R. Spellman and Nancy Whiting - Arabic translation
• Book by climate change denialist Ian Plimer, Heaven and Earth. Arabic translation - Rebuttal of book by Ian Enting. Rebuttal of book by John Price. 
• Fueling Our Future: An Introduction to Sustainable Energy by Robert L. Evans -- Arabic translation 
• Unauthorized translations of Carl Sagan books available via download

Review: The Submission by Amy Waldman

Tasnim at Muslimah Media Watch reviewed The Submission by Amy Waldman.



I have not read the novel.

Jaffa - The Orange's Clockwork

The basic subscription to Dish Network gives you viewer-supported LinkTV, which in my mind is the best channel available in the United States. In fact, I recommend giving to organizations like LinkTV over political candidates, since the real problem in the US politics is that, as Flavor Flav says, "ignorance is at an all time high."

A great example of content available on LinkTV is the documentary Jaffa - The Orange's Clockwork. Currently, it is available on-line. This documentary examines the myth of "making the desert bloom," which as a result of sophisticated Zionist propaganda over several decades, has been implanted in European-White Supremacist-Colonialist consciousness.

Review: The Future of Life by E.O. Wilson

The Future of Life by E. O. Wilson. (on PaperbackSwap)

I first heard about Edward Osborne ("E.O.") Wilson from a 2007 interview with Bill Moyers.

This is another of the books on science I've discussed. As I was listening to it, I wondered what humans fifty years from now, assuming humanity survives, will think about the humans who preferred acquiring consumer goods over preserving our planet's biodiversity? Or worse, the humans who were too busy killing each other, most assuredly for justifiable reasons, to notice that the planet was preparing to cull its most destructive species, home sapiens? Or even more unfathomable, large swaths of humanity spent all their time and effort worrying about which humans were indeed closer to God and immersed themselves in endless disputes over texts whose authors would be horrified that their works were cited as reasons for ego-assuaging religious one-upmanship.

Video Portrait of Faraz Khan, Calligrapher

Eidfilms ::: Faraz Khan: Calligrapher from Ahmed Eid on Vimeo.

Faraz Khan has a website and is on Facebook.

The Death of an Imam

The Death of an Imam from Salah D. Hassan on Vimeo.
A short documentary film on the 2009 FBI shooting of Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah in a Dearborn warehouse. The documentary was produced by faculty and students at Michigan State University.

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Honoring Imam Luqman on Saturday

A post shared by Dawud Walid (@dawudwalid) on Oct 26, 2020 at 5:48pm PDT

10 years later, the FBI's shooting death of Imam Luqman Abdullah in Dearborn still reverberates in Detroit's Black Muslim communities. October story: https://t.co/wfCTdYUdUS

— Niraj Warikoo (@nwarikoo) January 18, 2020

Interview with Filmmaker Iman Zawahry

Updated November 13, 2015 - Ask NBC to hire Iman Zawahry to direct an episode of Master of None.

My promised interview with filmmaker Iman Zawahry, director of the short films Tough Crowd and UnderCover, is now available!

Ayman Fadel · 2012 Interview with Iman Zawahry

The best way to keep up with Iman is through her Facebook page.

Review: Muslims in America: Seven Centuries of History (1312-1998) by Amir Nashid Ali Muhammad

Amir Nashid Ali Muhammad. Muslims In America: Seven Centuries Of History, 1312 1998: Collections And Stories Of American Muslims Beltsville, Maryland: Amana Publications; 1998. 64 pp. Paperback.

The latest version of this book is 84 pages and published in 2001, but I have not read it.

Century by century, the author mentions names of Muslims in that part of the Americas which became the United States. It's a great antidote to the "Columbus" phenomenon of some immigrant Muslims who believe that they brought Islam to the United States when they landed at JFK. It's also a great antidote to the Islamophobes who think that Muslims should be expelled from the United States as if they were last week's cold virus.

The book's bibliography allows the reader to follow up on the tips the author brings to the reader. I hope to learn more about Amir:

In April 1789, an advertisement seeking the capture of a man named Armer (Amir) appeared in the Savannah Georgia Gazette. Armer was about twenty years old when he ran away from the plantation of Thomas Grave in Richmond County, Georgia.  (p. 14)

Richmond County is about 4 miles from my house.

I believe the author is involved with the International Museum of Muslim Cultures in Jackson, Mississippi.

Film Review: Solar Mamas

Check out Woodturtle's review of the film Solar Mamas. It was broadcast on PBS's Independent Lens.

I have not seen the movie.

Interview with Nathan Lean, Author of Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims

Nathan Lean of Aslan Media has written The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims.



Read this interview in the Muscat Daily by Joseph Richard Preville. H/t CAIR.

The Islamophobia Industrymuscatdaily.com/Archive/Opinio… fb.me/1ofeXo3zw
— CAIR National (@CAIRNational) November 24, 2012

I have not read the book.

Support Hena Ashraf's New Film Small Delights

"Small Delights is a short fiction film about Aziza, who begins to understand that her love of music makes her quite different from those around her." Hena Ashraf, the director, is using Indiegogo to raise funds to support the project. Like the project on Facebook.



I've published several posts related to Hena Ashraf's work in the past.

Mālik and Medina: Islamic Reasoning in the Formative Period by Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf

Mālik and Medina | BRILL: brill.com/malik-and-medi… #islamiclaw
— Mohammad Fadel (@Shanfaraa) November 21, 2012

Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf is on the Board of Directors of Nawawi Foundation.

Support Gareth Porter & Just World Books Refute Fearmongering About Iran

Just World Books is asking people to pledge money to support a book project concerning the so-called threat posed by Iran's "nuclear program." It has asked historian and investigative journalist Dr. Gareth Porter to write the book.



Please pledge money so that this important project can see the light of day!

P.S. I just added Just World Books's RSS Feed to its podcasts to my iTunes.

Review: The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children

Katherine Stewart. The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children New York: Public Affairs; 2012. 290 pp. Subject index.

Katherine Stewart claims that Christian Nationalist groups have used misguided court decisions which transformed religious practice into protected speech, culminating in the 2001 Good News Club v. Milford Central, to use public schools for evangelism.