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Dear visitor,
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Ahmed Tharwat |
For
more than seven years now, a group of forward-looking, truth-seeking
Americans and Arab Americans have been working together to produce the
Arab-American TV program, Belahdan, on the Twin Cities’ cable public
access channel. For the last five years, people from all across the state
of Minnesota have been enjoying this unique show on public TV, Channel
17. Belahadan is the only local TV program that offers an insightful and
personal perspective on Americans of Middle-Eastern origin. It is also a
show that encourages cross-cultural dialog produced by “hyphenated”
Americans who want to make a difference.
We
are asking you today to help us to raise awareness of the rich culture of
the Middle East and to encourage acceptance of diversity and enrich the
cross-cultural dialog. Please become a sponsor of our program today. Why
is becoming a sponsor so important now?
We
need your help now more than ever to meet the new challenges that the
Arab-American community is facing. After September 11th,
Arab Americans seem to be experiencing a kind of emotional and cultural
interment. Maintaining a low profile, they are living through the Justice
Department investigation, probable FBI racial profiling and little
scrutiny from the media and Congress. They are confused, watchful, and,
most of all, apprehensive about their future. Our TV program is embarking
on a new era in which we give the Arab American a new voice.
We
need to bring the community to speak out and define themselves. We need to
let America know what we really feel and what we think and NOT let those
few twisted-minded idiots hijack our destiny.
Here are our objectives:
1.
Bring the Arab-American community into the culture
diversity realm.
2.
Introduce the Arab-American culture to the American
community at large in the context of their American experience.
3.
Introduce the diversity and the multiculturalism within the
Arab American community itself.
4.
Introduce the different views of the Arab Americans through
alternative TV programming.
5.
Give the Arab American another voice to represent their own
views of current events, events that have an immediate impact on the
Arab-American community here in
Minnesota.
Thank you..
Ahmed Tharwat
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