R Categories Festivals Movies Reeling 2021 September 24, 2021 Reeling 2021: At the End of Evin is a powerful Muslim trans story Mehdi and Mohammad Torab-Beigi's drama presents intriguing questions about the trans body and the experience of transition.
R Categories Festivals Movies Reviews September 24, 2020 Reeling 2020: “Breaking Fast” delivers the Muslim queer stories we’ve been starving for Mike Mossalam's debut feature is a vibrant mosaic of Queer Arab Muslim-American life.
J Categories Movies Reviews June 18, 2020 Joseph Gordon-Levitt flies the unfriendly skies in “7500” Patrick Vollrath's feature debut shifts from Hitchcockian claustrophobia to tone-deaf xenophobia.
& Categories Awards Reviews TV May 30, 2020 “Ramy” goes to messy places in its strong second season Muslim-American actor and comedian Ramy Youssef returns for a bracingly funny, probing season about faith and purpose and failure.
S Categories Festivals Movies SXSW 2020 March 24, 2020 SXSW: “Hamtramck, USA” Tests the Great American Melting Pot America's first Muslim-majority city learns the limits (and victories) of multiculturalism.
C Categories CIFF 2019 Festivals Interviews Podcasts Right on Cue December 5, 2019 CIFF 2019: Minhal Baig on “Hala”, “Dune”, and Returning to Chicago The director of the Sundance favorite discusses her coming-of-age tale Hala.
