{"id":1356,"date":"2002-03-21T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2002-03-21T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2002-03-21T07:00:04","modified_gmt":"2002-03-21T12:00:04","slug":"film_festivals_showcase_the_arab_and_muslim_world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/03\/film_festivals_showcase_the_arab_and_muslim_world\/","title":{"rendered":": Film Festivals Showcase the Arab and Muslim World"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Events of the past 6 months have apparently done little to dampen the interest in Arab and Muslim cinema. The <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com%2Fnews%3Ftmpl%3Dstory%26u%3D%2Fap%2F20020317%2Fap_on_en_mo%2Freel_arabs_2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Arab and Iranian Film Festival<\/a> in Seattle ended this week with a 40% increase in attendance over last year. This year\u2019s event, the fifth Arab film festival in 10 years, also was renamed to reflect inclusion of four films from non-Arab Iran. This comes on the heels of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aff.org\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Arab Film Festival<\/a> in San Francisco, which was cancelled last September, only to return with record attendance in February. And there\u2019s always room for humor \u2013 one moviegoer noted a Korean link in one of the films (the father of one of the leads), leading him to dub it the first <a href=\"http:\/\/archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Ftexis.cgi%2Fweb%2Fvortex%2Fdisplay%3Fslug%3Darab12%26date%3D20020312%26query%3Dfilm%2Bfestival\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Axis of Evil<\/a> film festival.      <\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Shahed Amanullah is editor-in-chief of altmuslim.com.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Arab and Iranian Film Festival in Seattle joins others in the post-9\/11 cultural landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-briefings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>: Film Festivals Showcase the Arab and Muslim World<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This week&#039;s Arab and Iranian Film Festival in Seattle joins others in the post-9\/11 cultural landscape.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/03\/film_festivals_showcase_the_arab_and_muslim_world\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\": Film Festivals Showcase the Arab and Muslim World\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This week&#039;s Arab and Iranian Film Festival in Seattle joins others in the post-9\/11 cultural landscape.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/03\/film_festivals_showcase_the_arab_and_muslim_world\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"altmuslim\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2002-03-21T12:00:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Shahed Amanullah\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shahed Amanullah\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/03\/film_festivals_showcase_the_arab_and_muslim_world\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/03\/film_festivals_showcase_the_arab_and_muslim_world\/\",\"name\":\": Film Festivals Showcase the Arab and Muslim World\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2002-03-21T12:00:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2002-03-21T12:00:04+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#\/schema\/person\/0e0efbb645cc461c721083358f82f945\"},\"description\":\"This week's Arab and Iranian Film Festival in Seattle joins others in the post-9\/11 cultural landscape.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/03\/film_festivals_showcase_the_arab_and_muslim_world\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/03\/film_festivals_showcase_the_arab_and_muslim_world\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/03\/film_festivals_showcase_the_arab_and_muslim_world\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\": Film Festivals Showcase the Arab and Muslim World\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/\",\"name\":\"altmuslim\",\"description\":\"Global perspectives on Muslim life, politics &amp; 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