What's New in the American Muslim Community?
2008 Film Contest Grand Prize Winner: Arab in America

Georgia-native Nabil Abou-Harb is the grand prize winner of the One Nation film contest, earning $25,000 for his film, "Arab in America".

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One Nation Film Contest Winners Announced

The winners of the "One Nation, Many Voices" Film Contest were announced on Tuesday, March 17.  The five winning films, each running five minutes or less and available online, are a mix of fictional and true stories and explore: job discrimination, religious conversion, Islam's take on the environment, finding allies in unlikely places and the impact of a small town Muslim high school teacher on his non-Muslim students.

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"New Muslim Cool: The Halal of Hip Hop"

New documentary, “New Muslim Cool” follows Hamza Perez, a Puerto Rican American Muslim rapper, as he navigates the paths of religion, race, politics and culture which intersect his life in post-9/11 America.

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"Who speaks for Muslims?"

By Dilara Hafiz, with permission of Altmuslim

American Muslims are not a monolithic block – they are as diverse as American Jews in terms of differences in orthodoxy and observance. But just as the media paints a monolithic picture, some Muslims also insist on doing the same.

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Prize-winning videos capture lives of Muslims in USA
USA Today, 03/19/2009
 
Poll Finds U.S. Muslims Thriving, but Not Content
New York Times
03/02/2009
 
Filmmakers focus on Muslim American life
Detroit News
2/22/2009
 
Interview with Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow
Worldview
2/16/2009
 

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