Caught in the Crossfire: Arab Americans in Wartime (2002)
Directed by Brad Lichenstein / David Van Taylor
Genres - News [TV] |
Sub-Genres - Biography, Military & War, Race & Ethnicity, Social Issues |
Run Time - 60 min. |
Countries - United States |
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Synopsis
Three Arab New Yorkers confront life in the wake of 9/11 and find it difficult. Police officer Ahmed Nasser, a Yemeni native, saw the horror up close: He was assigned to Ground Zero. Journalist Raghida Dergham, who covers the UN for the Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat, sees Arabs and the West talking past each other. (She also has a personal problem: She's under indictment for treason in her native Lebanon.) And Rev. Khader El-Yateem, a Palestinian, worries about his family still in the Middle East.
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Arab-American, assimilation, Christianity, cultural-identity, culture-clash, discrimination, harassment, homeland, immigrant, misconception, Muslim, September 11th, struggle, war-on-terrorism
