- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 13, 2012
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A model integrated community for Chicago to study
In Hope Meadows, a common purpose for residents—caring for each other—leads to real integration
- Movies, Movie Sidebar, May 16, 2012
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A world of hurt
Human Rights Watch Film Festival presents six new documentaries at Gene Siskel Film Center
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 19, 2012
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War stories that are easier to swallow
While the nation wonders what led to the slaying of 19 Afghans, action-packed war memoirs are flying off the shelves.
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 20, 2011
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Truth and dare
The Committee to Protect Journalists reports at least 43 journalists worldwide were killed this year because of their work.
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 2, 2011
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How do you like your war news?
Good war news, bad war news
- News & Features, Chicago Reader at Forty, May 26, 2011
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1991
The year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader
- Blogs, Bleader, May 20, 2011
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Dramatic and jarring "Conflict Zone" seeks gallery space in other cities
- Galleries & Museums, Art Feature, May 19, 2011
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The photographs in Conflict Zone document endless war and daily life.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 28, 2011
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No Charges in Reported Hate Crime Against Alshaibi
No charges will be filed the reported March 6 beating of filmmaker Usama Alshaibi in Fairfield, Iowa, which Alshaibi initially labeled a hate crime.
- News & Features, Media, Mar 17, 2011
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The Third Sex in Kabul
The Tribune's Kim Barker was no mere reporter; she was a Western woman!
- News & Features, The Arts, Mar 10, 2011
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The Art of War
And the science, too: The Pritzker Military Library and Lyric's latest are all about battle.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 8, 2011
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Police Identify House, Witnesses in Alleged Alshaibi Beating
Fairfield, Iowa authorities confirm that they have identified the house and witnesses where filmmaker Usama Alshaibi was subjected to an alleged hate crime attack early Sunday.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 7, 2011
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Filmmaker Usama Alshaibi Says He Was Beaten in Anti-Arab attack
Usama Alshaibi, director of the in-progress documentary "American Arab," claims he was beaten March 6 in Fairfield, Iowa in an anti-Arab attack.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 17, 2011
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The Road to Fallujah
Proudly "unembedded" in Iraq, Mark Manning claims to be the only Western journalist living among the civilians in the aftermath of the Battle of Fallujah, whose devastating consequences he documented in "The Road to Fallujah," screening for free Tuesday 1/18 at DePaul University.
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 12, 2010
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American Arab
Usama Alshaibi screens clips from his in-progress documentary "American Arab" and joins a panel discussion for Arab American Heritage Month, tonight at Columbia College.
- Movies, Movie Feature, Aug 5, 2010
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From Iraq to Iowa
With a little help from Kartemquin Films, Usama Alshaibi documents the Arab-American experience.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 2, 2010
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The Oath
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival opens Thursday 6/3 with "The Oath," a documentary that contrasts Guantanamo prisoner and former Osama Bin Laden driver Salim Hamdan, a Guantanamo Bay prisoner prosecuted by military tribunal, with his brother-in-law Abu Jandal, now a cab driver in Yemen.
- Movies, Movie Review, Mar 18, 2010
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Fighting Lies With Fiction
Green Zone reduces America's blundering invasion of Iraq to a generic thriller.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 10, 2010
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Triangle of Death
Marine Folleh S. Tamba's documentary about his deployment during Iraq's first democratic elections, "Triangle of Death," has its Midwest premiere Wednesday 2/10 at BlackFinn in Naperville.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 10, 2010
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Soldier
Sometimes a cabdriver will hear much more than he ever wanted to.
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