Talk Islam » movies

Fatemeh — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:48:06 +0000

This week on MMW, we looked at Mona Abu Sulayman’s interview with Riz Khan, tried to figure out what all the fuss was about in Pakistan, pitted the LA Times against the BBC for more sexist coverage of Egyptian harassment, and reviewed the Egyptian film Her Man, which has sex! in it. We also put together a dashing link list.

Great reviews of Traitor from Racialicio …

Fatemeh — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:28:27 +0000

Great reviews of Traitor from Racialicious and altmuslim.

Bottom line: save your money.

Few links about Muslim women in art

muse — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:53:26 +0000

Few links about Muslim women in art. I can’t promise bikini shots in my links, but they’re interesting nonetheless.

Sooraya Qadir: Niqabi X-woman

Pakistani director Mehreen Jabar’s film Ramchand Pakistani is the only Pakistani movie featured in NY’s Tribeca Film Festival. (I’m excited to see Pakistani movies moving past depictions of rotund women gyrating their hips - not that there’s anything wrong with that…)

Clinton’s library in Arkansas is hosting an art show containing artwork by women from the Muslim world. It is called, what else, Breaking the Veil.

You Don’t Mess With the Zohan is Adam S …

aziz — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:15:06 +0000

You Don’t Mess With the Zohan is Adam Sandler’s next movie, about Israeli-Arab relations. Also features Rob Schneider in brownface makeup as an arab cabbie.

(via Ultrabrown)

I love superhero movies, but watching th …

willow — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:10:43 +0000

I love superhero movies, but watching them in today’s political climate is like waiting to get kicked in the gut. Iron Man was no exception. It’s one of the best superhero movies to date, but gets bogged down in the same old tropes when it comes to Islam, the military and the blessed role of a messianic America. Yaman has a very good analysis.