Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(June 2011)
Directed by: Ahmed Ahmed
Starring: Ahmed Ahmed and the Ahmed Family, Omid Djalili, Khalid Khalifa, Peter Howarth-Lees, Lubna Hussein, Whitney Cummings, Tommy Davidson and Tom Papa
Exploring the image of Americans belonging to the Islamic faith, Ahmed Ahmed, an Egyptian-American comedian, utilizes the words of Barack Obama interspersed with person-on-the-street interviews to open his documentary before presenting us with his stand-up comedy tour of the Middle East.
Addressing issues of “Arab” vs. “Muslim,” the concept behind the film is that through comedy (mainly self-deprecating or self-aware commentary), comedians can enable others to laugh at the experiences proffered and through that laughter realize these Muslim comics, and Muslims generally, are “just like us.”
With one sweep, Ahmed and company provide evidence that indeed he and his contemporaries are much more like us than extremists, but at the same moment, their awareness of how privileged their position is,...
(June 2011)
Directed by: Ahmed Ahmed
Starring: Ahmed Ahmed and the Ahmed Family, Omid Djalili, Khalid Khalifa, Peter Howarth-Lees, Lubna Hussein, Whitney Cummings, Tommy Davidson and Tom Papa
Exploring the image of Americans belonging to the Islamic faith, Ahmed Ahmed, an Egyptian-American comedian, utilizes the words of Barack Obama interspersed with person-on-the-street interviews to open his documentary before presenting us with his stand-up comedy tour of the Middle East.
Addressing issues of “Arab” vs. “Muslim,” the concept behind the film is that through comedy (mainly self-deprecating or self-aware commentary), comedians can enable others to laugh at the experiences proffered and through that laughter realize these Muslim comics, and Muslims generally, are “just like us.”
With one sweep, Ahmed and company provide evidence that indeed he and his contemporaries are much more like us than extremists, but at the same moment, their awareness of how privileged their position is,...
- 6/9/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(June 2011)
Directed by: Ahmed Ahmed
Starring: Ahmed Ahmed and the Ahmed Family, Omid Djalili, Khalid Khalifa, Peter Howarth-Lees, Lubna Hussein, Whitney Cummings, Tommy Davidson and Tom Papa
Exploring the image of Americans belonging to the Islamic faith, Ahmed Ahmed, an Egyptian-American comedian, utilizes the words of Barack Obama interspersed with person-on-the-street interviews to open his documentary before presenting us with his stand-up comedy tour of the Middle East.
Addressing issues of “Arab” vs. “Muslim,” the concept behind the film is that through comedy (mainly self-deprecating or self-aware commentary), comedians can enable others to laugh at the experiences proffered and through that laughter realize these Muslim comics, and Muslims generally, are “just like us.”
With one sweep, Ahmed and company provide evidence that indeed he and his contemporaries are much more like us than extremists, but at the same moment, their awareness of how privileged their position is,...
(June 2011)
Directed by: Ahmed Ahmed
Starring: Ahmed Ahmed and the Ahmed Family, Omid Djalili, Khalid Khalifa, Peter Howarth-Lees, Lubna Hussein, Whitney Cummings, Tommy Davidson and Tom Papa
Exploring the image of Americans belonging to the Islamic faith, Ahmed Ahmed, an Egyptian-American comedian, utilizes the words of Barack Obama interspersed with person-on-the-street interviews to open his documentary before presenting us with his stand-up comedy tour of the Middle East.
Addressing issues of “Arab” vs. “Muslim,” the concept behind the film is that through comedy (mainly self-deprecating or self-aware commentary), comedians can enable others to laugh at the experiences proffered and through that laughter realize these Muslim comics, and Muslims generally, are “just like us.”
With one sweep, Ahmed and company provide evidence that indeed he and his contemporaries are much more like us than extremists, but at the same moment, their awareness of how privileged their position is,...
- 6/9/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
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