Film Screening Challenges Arab Stereotypes in Media

posted on: Apr 8, 2015

The Hollywood cinema has long played into extreme stereotypes about Arabic people, which imply that the Middle East is a land of cultural “otherness” and jam-packed full of a people who do not understand or respect Western beliefs and should therefore be treated as sub-human. These beliefs have been propagated by decades of misrepresentation in the media, ranging from Paramount’s “Sahara” in 1983 to Disney’s “Aladdin” in 1992.

Source: pepperdine-graphic.com