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THE GOLDEN SUMMER
(More photos and info at The Golden Harvest website) I traveled more continents this summer than I have in a long time, and it was nice to have spent some of it with The Golden Harvest, which traveled even farther. It was probably the highlight of the film’s career to play to a full house Continue reading
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Keeping a Full House
Full House was my first Hollywood experience…At the end of last semester, I found myself doing something I had never done before: sharing with my students my journey to Hollywood. I told them it began with this show called Full House, which ended before any of them were even born. But they oohed and aahed, Continue reading
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Early Morning Calls
How September 11 Made Me a Muslim Writer When I woke up on Sept 11, 2001 in my apartment in LA, it was still dark. I was a struggling screenwriter up with the sun. I was trying to be like Stephen King, who I’d heard somewhere woke up at 3 am to get his writing Continue reading
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The Golden Harvest to Premiere at Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Every filmmaker making a film on her own dreams of it opening at a Top 10 ranked festival. We are delighted thus that The Golden Harvest will make its debut on March 4 at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece. Not only is it a great festival–it’s in the country with the highest per Continue reading
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The Trailer for The Golden Harvest is Out
Visit our new webpage: http://www.goldenharvestfilm.org/ Continue reading
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The Celebratory Pancake in Abundance
In their modern day interpretation, most religious holidays that are about deprivation and/or sacrifice are counterbalanced in their present day celebration with gluttony. Thanksgiving, Christmas, Diwali and yes Ramadan. Newspapers reveled last year in stories about hundreds of people being hoisted onto emergency room stretchers in Qatar, Jordan and elsewhere, due to complications from overeating Continue reading
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Another Place the Deer and the Antelope Roam (or Why Abu Dhabi is Called Abu Dhabi)
I’ve been spending a lot more time around animals lately than I ever thought I would. And if you asked me to guess where I might one day be maximizing my time with deer and antelope, I probably wouldn’t have picked Abu Dhabi. Especially as I lived in a place called Minnesota, where people hunted Continue reading
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My Friend Sami Deeb
In May, I learned that I would be doing two events in Seattle as part of my book tour. I made a mental note right away to let my childhood buddy Sami D. know soon. We had grown up together, and spent hours hanging out as teenagers, he, Sami Z and me. And as adults, Continue reading
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