Every modern war has its iconic photographs—the ones that get seared into memory and reproduced in history books. Matthew Brady’s picture of the Confederate dead at Antietam. Joe Rosenthal’s view of the Iwo Jima flag-raising. Nick Ut’s shot of a naked Vietnamese girl fleeing a napalm attack. Perhaps no image better illustrates the confusion and […]
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No Charges in Reported Hate Crime Against Alshaibi
No charges will be filed the reported March 6 beating of filmmaker Usama Alshaibi in Fairfield, Iowa, which Alshaibi initially labeled a hate crime.
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The Third Sex in Kabul
The Tribune’s Kim Barker was no mere reporter; she was a Western woman!
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Police Identify House, Witnesses in Alleged Alshaibi Beating
Fairfield, Iowa authorities confirm that they have identified the house and witnesses where filmmaker Usama Alshaibi was subjected to an alleged hate crime attack early Sunday.
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Filmmaker Usama Alshaibi Says He Was Beaten in Anti-Arab attack
Usama Alshaibi, director of the in-progress documentary “American Arab,” claims he was beaten March 6 in Fairfield, Iowa in an anti-Arab attack.
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The Road to Fallujah
Proudly “unembedded” in Iraq, Mark Manning claims to be the only Western journalist living among the civilians in the aftermath of the Battle of Fallujah, whose devastating consequences he documented in “The Road to Fallujah,” screening for free Tuesday 1/18 at DePaul University.
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American Arab
Usama Alshaibi screens clips from his in-progress documentary “American Arab” and joins a panel discussion for Arab American Heritage Month, tonight at Columbia College.
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From Iraq to Iowa
With a little help from Kartemquin Films, Usama Alshaibi documents the Arab-American experience.
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The Oath
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival opens Thursday 6/3 with “The Oath,” a documentary that contrasts Guantanamo prisoner and former Osama Bin Laden driver Salim Hamdan, a Guantanamo Bay prisoner prosecuted by military tribunal, with his brother-in-law Abu Jandal, now a cab driver in Yemen.
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Fighting Lies With Fiction
Green Zone reduces America’s blundering invasion of Iraq to a generic thriller.
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Triangle of Death
Marine Folleh S. Tamba’s documentary about his deployment during Iraq’s first democratic elections, “Triangle of Death,” has its Midwest premiere Wednesday 2/10 at BlackFinn in Naperville.
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Nice Bombs
Usama Alshaibi celebrates the DVD release of his personal Iraq documentary “Nice Bombs” with two free screenings Friday 10/16 at the Portage Theater.
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Lost to Lariam?
When Juan Torres heard his son had died on an air base in Afghanistan, he became convinced that he’d been murdered—perhaps for knowing too much about the heroin trade on the base. But now he and many others believe John Torres was driven to suicide by a legal drug he was required to use—the antimalarial mefloquine hydrochloride, brand name Lariam.