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Reel Bad Arabs
Director: Sut Jhally
USA 2006 documentary 60 min
 
This moving documentation is based on the correspondent book of author Jack G. Saheen. From the beginning of silent film up to today’s glamorous Hollywood productions, the movie describes the various prejudices attributed to the Arab – Bedouins, bandits, obedient beauties, bad sheikhs and terrorists. By means of examples, the movie tries to give an answer to these stereotypes.