Amreeka movie now online for free

A while back, I wrote about a movie called Amreeka that recently came out.  Now you can watch it online for free.  Click on the photo below:

 

A feel-good comedy about a Palestinian mother who moves to rural Illinois with her teenaged son, Amreeka is a kind of stealth political film that confronts issues of ethnic tension and American xenophobia.

 

Amreeka: A feel-good comedy

 

 

I’m looking forward to watching this movie.    Here’s the plot below:

 

A feel-good comedy about a Palestinian mother who moves to rural Illinois with her teenaged son, Amreeka is a kind of stealth political film that confronts issues of ethnic tension and American xenophobia.

First-time filmmaker Cherien Dabis (a writer on the television series The L-Word ) based the story on her own experience, growing up as the child of Jordanian-Palestinian immigrants. In the anti-Arab hysteria of the first Gulf War, her family received daily death threats, and her father’s medical practice went into decline when his patients quit. The script for Amreeka (Arabic for America) has no bitterness and, in fact, portrays the United States as the place where people from many lands become one, and everyone enjoys Disneyland and a good hamburger.

Source:  The Globe and Mail

Meet Hi Jolly!

After listening to Shaykh Yasir Qadhi’s new video, “History of Islam in America – Wither and Where”, I learned that there was a Greek man, Phillip Tedro, who converted to Islam and ended up migrating to America around 1856 to work for the American government. He was later known as “Hi Jolly” because I guess it was too hard to pronounce Hadji Ali!

Isn’t it amazing that there were Muslims scattered in America in 1856, and a Greek Muslim convert at that!?