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Podcast: Rewriting Hollywood
Episode: Prof. Evelyn Alsultany: Muslim Inclusion in Hollywood
Description: Jared Milrad interviews best-selling author Professor Evelyn Alsultany about her powerful new book, Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion , in which Prof. Alsultany argues that Muslims are only included through “crisis diversity,” an institutional pattern of crisis (such as high-profile Islamophobic incidents), response, and then inertia until the next crisis.Alsultany notably co-authored The Obeidi-Alsultany Test to help Hollywood improve representations of Muslims—what some label the Bechdel test for Muslims—and serves as a consultant for Hollywood studios, making her a leading expert on the history of representations of Arabs and Muslims in the US media, a...