USC Professor and Author, Evelyn Alsultany and I discuss her Cuban and Muslim background and how she became a Hollywood consultant for Arab and Muslim portrayals in television and movies.
Wine: Herencia del Valle, 2014, Cabernet Sauvignon
BIO:
Evelyn Alsultany is a leading expert on the history of representations of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. media. She is the author of Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion (NYU Press, 2022) and Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11 (2012). She is an associate professor in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California’s Dornsife College. She has served as an educator and consultant for Hollywood studios and co-authored criteria, the Obeidi-Alsultany Test, to help Hollywood improve representations of Muslims. Professor Alsultany has published op-eds in The Hollywood Reporter, The Washington Post, and Newsweek and has a podcast, “Muslims As Seen on TV.” For more information see https://evelynalsultany.com/.