It's the last of my Shark Week columns here and I know that most of you are going to be absolutely overjoyed about that. I mean, I'm still posting potential Shark Week theme songs over on my Twitter (Note: you don't have to join Twitter to see those, they're just there) and probably will be until Saturday night or I lose all my followers. Whichever comes first. Disappointingly, there are no first run Shark Week events on tonight, which kind of blows because it means I don't get to list any of them. And I know that all the Shark Week stuff has probably been a little over done but seriously, what the hell else is going in in the first week of August? We're hitting the worst part of the summer weather wise, there's still about six weeks if not more till most of the good TV comes back...
- 8/5/2010
- by Intern Rusty
Last week I attended the European premiere of the film Journey into America at the Culture and Cultures International Film Festival near Toulouse in Southern France. The film, which premiered in Washington DC on July 4th, is the result of a nine month cross-country trip I took to study Islam in America with Professor Akbar Ahmed of American University and a team of young Americans. Upon arriving in France it was apparent that similar debates and controversies surrounding the religion were raging. France, like the rest of Europe, is clearly having problems with its Muslim minority. Our film's director, Craig Considine, and I were welcomed by festival director Denis Piel, a former photographer for Vogue and director of the film Love is Blind. Piel had started the festival to facilitate dialogue between different world cultures. Nestled in a medieval village in...
- 9/16/2009
- by Frankie Martin
- Huffington Post
As I sat in the American University class "Dialogue or Clash of Civilizations, taught by Akbar Ahmed, American University's Chair of Islamic Studies" little did I know that four years later I would be completing and starring in a major motion picture. This July 4th at 9 Pm the film Journey into America will premiere at the Washington DC Convention Center as a part of the Islamic Film Festival at the Islamic Society of North America's (Isna) annual convention. The film is the result of an unprecedented nine-month trip across the United States headed by Professor Akbar Ahmed. Unlike other studies that rely on poll data and phone conversations, here our team visited over 75 cities and over 100 mosques and met Muslims in their homes. The trip stemmed from a previous trip we took to the Muslim world for...
- 6/23/2009
- by Frankie Martin
- Huffington Post
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