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  Jack Shaheen's Best Portrayals of Arabs
 


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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Cast: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi Ben Salem, Barbara Valentin
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Beyond the Walls (1984)
Cast: Arnon Zadok, Muhamad Bakri, Assi Dayan, Rami Danon
Director: Uri Barbash

The Black Tent (1956)
Cast: Anthony Steel, Donald Sinden, Anna Maria Sandri, Andre Morell
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst

Cup Final (1992)
Cast: Moshe Ivgi, Muhamed Bakri, Suheil Haddad, Salim Dau, Bassam Zuamut Director: Eran Riklis

Gambit (1966)
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Herbert Lom, Roger C. Carmel
Director: Ronald Neame

King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)
Cast: Rex Harrison, Virginia Mayo, George Sanders, Laurence Harvey
Directed by David Butler

Lion of the Desert (1981)
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger, John Gielgud, Irene Papas
Director: Moustapha Akkad

Madame Rosa (1977)
Cast: Simone Signoret, Claude Dauphin, Samy Ben Youb, Gabriel Jabbour
Director: Moshe Mizrahi

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
Cast: Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Christian Slater
Director: Kevin Reynolds

The Thief of Baghdad (1924)
Cast: Steve Reeves, Georgia Moll, Arturo Dominici, Edy Vessel
Director: Arthur Lubin

The 13th Warrior (1999)
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Omar Sharif, Diane Venora, Vladimir Kulich
Director: John McTiernan

Three Kings (1999)
Cast: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Nora Dunn, Jamie Kennedy
Director: David O. Russell

 

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