CKUT Radio: “Being Osama” – A Documentary Film on Racism in Canada

By Anonymous (not verified), 13 September, 2005
Author
Stefan Christoff

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Listen to an interview with Lebanese documentary filmmaker Mahmoud Kaabour, on his film “Being Osama”. The documentary was filmed after the events of September 11th, 2001 in New York City and provides a window into the lives of six Montrealers named Osama, in the wake of the institutional and social backlash against Arabs and Muslims following 9/11.

This interview was recorded in Beirut Lebanon, where today Mahmoud lives after being refused immigration status by Citizenship and Immigration Canada, after the release of “Being Osama” and the national attention which the film garnered. In the interview Mahmoud reflects from Lebanon on being forced from Montreal and speaks on institutional racism in Canada, which his film “Being Osama” addressed.

For more information on the film “Being Osama” visit:
http://www.ridm.qc.ca/film.e/b/beingosama.html

[This interview was recorded and produced in Beirut Lebanon by Stefan Christoff for CKUT Radio in Montreal, who is currently in Lebanon working as a media activist, producing written, audio, and visual reports on present-day struggles for social justice in Lebanon. To contact Stefan email, christoff(at)resist.ca]

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