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...Jihad is not the first show to tackle fundamental Islam. Since 9/11, Muslim comedians have increasingly satirized the subject to slay suspicion and stereotypes, managing to dodge the controversy faced by Jihad. For Dean Obeidallah, co-founder of the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival, that comes down to identity. "The difference between us and the Jihad musical is that it's us - the people being negatively stereotyped - trying to break the stereotype ourselves." In the eyes of protesters, that may be what distinguishes a critical success from a bomb...
...culture profile of this growing group had been almost nil. You might know that F. Murray Abraham or Danny Thomas had Middle Eastern ancestry, but it was trivia, like knowing that Dan Aykroyd was Canadian. There was no figure whose ethnicity deeply informed his or her work--no Arab-American Dick Gregory or Iranian-American Lenny Bruce...
...lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), was appointed Undersecretary of Homeland Defense for Massachusetts by Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 last Wednesday. Kayyem, who has a Lebanese-American father and Lebanese immigrant mother, is the only Arab-American to hold such a prominent position in any state’s homeland security department, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. “I’m having mixed emotions right now. I was not planning this,” Kayyem said in a telephone interview yesterday. She will...
They thought it would be the most accurate portrayal of a Muslim in America, outside that of an Arab-American...
...Wednesday the Iraq War finally landed squarely at the feet of the U.S. military. At a Senate Armed Services hearing, Gen. John Abizaid, the Arab-American who heads the Pentagon's regional military command with responsibility for Iraq and Afghanistan, had his professional judgment and even his honesty sharply questioned. Abizaid, a West Point graduate and combat veteran, had long been held up as the Army's most sophisticated expert on the Middle East...