Documentaries
"The Four Hijabs" is an animated short film that explores the multiple meanings of four hijabs mentioned in 16 Qur'anic verses and interprets them through Arab Muslim feminist lenses.
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Sacred Stages: A Church, A Theatre, and A Story (28min, 37sec), tells the unique and inspiring story of the relationship between the First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple—Chicago's oldest Christian congregation—and Silk Road Rising, a theatre company founded in response to 9/11 and dedicated to showcasing playwrights of Asian and Middle Eastern backgrounds. A shared commitment to storytelling, racial and economic justice, and LGBT inclusion characterizes this profound partnership between a religious community and a secular theatre.
Read MoreSilk Road Rising's "Not Quite White: Arabs, Slavs, and the Contours of Contested Whiteness" (24 min, 8 sec), directed by Jamil Khoury and Stephen Combs, is a documentary film that explores the complicated relationship of Arab and Slavic immigrants to American notions of whiteness.
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