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Heartfelt thanks to Ruth Conniff for your compelling review of Glass House by Brian Alexander (Books, June/July issue). The tragedy in Lancaster, Ohio, due to Anchor Hocking is similar to [...]

Defamation of the Arab Muslims in the movies of Hollywood is regarded as an unkind and unfair treatment towards innocent Arabs. Humanization of Arab Muslims in Hollywood is crucial to restore diplomacy and to resume peace path in post-war Iraq and throughout the Middle East.

'Daddy,' remarked daughter Michele, 'I can't believe you are going to see another bandages-with-eyes movie, that cursed 'The Mummy Returns.'' 'Afraid so,' I sighed. 'But aren't you on deadline for [...]

In the author's hypothetical interview with Paul Pessimist, his right-wing Republican neighbor, the imaginary dialogue illustrates how Touchstone Pictures, and its corporate owner Disney Studios, under the leadership of CEO [...]

Early in the morning of Sunday, June 15, my daughter, Michele, called me with the sad news that my dear friend, Casey Kasem, had passed away. My heart wept. Fond [...]

The new movie 'The Kingdom' is a setback for efforts to improve relations between the United States and the Arab world. Director Peter Berg vowed that he was 'determined to [...]

Finally, Hollywood is offering humane, equitable images of Arabs and Muslims. Stephen Gaghan's political drama 'Syriana,' and Steven Spielberg's 'Munich' discard stale stereotypes. Instead, they forcefully and eloquently argue that [...]

Thank you for your comprehensive analysis of Reel Bad Arabs [see review by Lisa Suhair Majaj in Cineaste, Vol. XXIII, No. 4], my most recent book on Hollywood's Arab stereotypes. [...]

As motion pictures are one of the most powerful teaching tools ever created, this article will examine how image makers have presented the Arab woman. History reveals that since the beginning of cinema, in fact for more than a century, Hollywood's movies have humiliated, demonized, and eroticized Arab women. Obviously, film makers did not create these images but inherited and embellished Europe's preexisting Arab stereotypes. In the 18th and 19th centuries European artists and writers offered fictional renditions of women as bathed and submissive exotic 'objects'. The stereotype came to be accepted as valid, becoming an indelible part of European popular culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issue including "Arab Bashing on the Big Screen," "Hell No, They Won't Go," and "Junkyard Jim."

Criticizes the dehumanizing images of Arabs in Hollywood motion pictures such as 'The Gladiator' and 'G.I. Jane.' Fictional depiction of Arabs in the Roman action-adventure film, 'The Gladiator'; Display of ungainly Arabs in 'G.I. Jane'; Call for viewers and organizations to resolve problems of discrimination.