Images of Islam

Family: Encounters with other traditions · 21 entries

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Concept

• Islamophobia (the phobia of Islam)

  Tareq al-Suwaidan's 'Al-Wasatiyya' programme's discussion of the Western fear or wariness of Islam. The episode's audience split 51% seeing a real widespread phenomenon and 49% a limited media-inflated one. On its greatest cause, 55% chose 'Jewish fingers', 25% the conduct of some Muslims, 20% historical inheritance — a result that surprised the host himself. Panelists distinguished between phobia as a clinical term absent from medical dictionaries and the political-media phenomenon.

Screening Room

• Reel Bad Arabs

  2006 CE · 1427 AH†The Media Education Foundation documentary built on Jack Shaheen's book documenting Hollywood's stereotyped portrayal of Arabs and Muslims across a thousand films.

• Midnight Express

  1978 CE · 1398 AH†Midnight Express.

• The Siege

  1998 CE · 1419 AH†The Siege.

• The Kingdom

  2007 CE · 1428 AH†The Kingdom.

• The Water Diviner

  2014 CE · 1435 AH†The Water Diviner.

• The Message

  1976 CE · 1396 AH†Epic film about the birth of Islam, shot in separate Arabic and English versions with different casts; the Prophet is never shown or heard.

• Aladdin

  1992 CE · 1412 AH†Aladdin.

• Aladdin

  2019 CE · 1440 AH†Aladdin.

• Eye in the Sky

  2015 CE · 1436 AH†Eye in the Sky.

• The Thief of Bagdad

  1940 CE · 1359 AH†The Thief of Bagdad.

• 5 Broken Cameras

  2011 CE · 1432 AH†Emad Burnat's documentary on five years of Bil'in village life under the wall and settlements, told through his broken cameras; Oscar-nominated.

• Outside the Law

  2010 CE · 1431 AH†Outside the Law.

• Khartoum

  1966 CE · 1386 AH†Khartoum.

• Traitor

  2008 CE · 1429 AH†Traitor.

• Lawrence of Arabia

  1962 CE · 1382 AH†Lawrence of Arabia.

• Padmaavat

  2018 CE · 1439 AH†Padmaavat.

• Rules of Engagement

  2000 CE · 1421 AH†Rules of Engagement.

• Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

  2003 CE · 1424 AH†Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas.

• Rendition

  2007 CE · 1428 AH†Rendition.

• Homeland

  2011 CE · 1432 AH†American series about a CIA officer tracking a domestic threat; won major awards and was criticised for its depiction of Islam and Muslims.

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Controversial topics

• Sexuality and gender diversity
• Converts and those who leave
• Images and figural art
• Takfir and its critics
• Dissent, heresy and freethought
• Conquest and its debates
• Violent extremism and the Muslim response
• Islam and atheism or secular thought