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Arab Film Festival biggest yet
Janos Gereben, The Examiner Oct 10, 2007 6:29 PM (791 days ago)SAN FRANCISCO In September 2001, just when it was needed the most, the Arab Film Festival in the Bay Area was canceled, having been scheduled days within 9/11. It was “needed” because the mission of “Cinemayaat” is “to enhance public understanding of Arab culture and to provide alternative representations of Arabs that contradict the stereotypical images frequently encountered in the American mass media.” Later, in the infamous year of 2003, months after the war in Iraq began, and in the midst of another unofficial but very real backlash against Arabs and Arab-Americans, writer-director Jack Shaheen had a big impact with his “Reel Bad Arabs” in the Castro Theatre, at the opening of the seventh AFF.
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