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Ramy outgrows Ramy in Season 2, making for a smarter, better show
Nearly half of the second season of Ramy Youssef's Hulu comedy isn't told from his character's perspective.
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Posted Monday 4/27/20 at 3:31PM EDT
Jeff Goldblum catches heat for his anti-Islam comments on RuPaul's Drag Race
Contestant Jackie Cox wore a blue starry hijab and a red-and-white striped caftan on Friday's episode, prompting guest judge Goldblum...
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Posted Monday 1/06/20 at 10:11AM EST
Why Ramy Youssef saying "Allahu akbar. Thank you, God" during his Golden Globes speech is a big deal
The Hulu Ramy star won the first Golden Globe of the night for best actor in a comedy series.
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Posted Tuesday 8/27/19 at 10:16PM EDT
Disney+'s Ms. Marvel will offer a refreshing Muslim character
The superhero series revolving around a teenage Pakistani-Muslim living in New Jersey is important alternative to the years of portrayals...
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Ms. Marvel TV series may be coming to Disney+
Marvel Studios is developing a show revolving around Ms.
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Posted Thursday 5/16/19 at 5:11AM EDT
Muslim advocacy group accuses Law & Order: SVU of inflaming Islamophobia
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has called for a meeting with the NBC drama's producers after it says last week's...
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Posted Wednesday 4/24/19 at 2:56AM EDT
Ramy misses the mark with its depiction of Muslim women
"The illustrations of the majority of the Muslim women in Ramy’s life are focused on all the things they seemingly...
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Posted Friday 4/19/19 at 11:27PM EDT
Hulu's Ramy is an autobiographical, lyrical landmark -- representation politics at its finest
"Ramy is an earnest exploration of Muslim identity that at times runs toward saccharine; one gets the impression that the...
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Posted Monday 3/11/19 at 10:04AM EDT
Fox News "strongly" condemns Jeanine Pirro's remarks on Rep. Ilhan Omar's Muslim faith
On her Saturday night show, Pirro suggested that Omar wearing a hijab was "antithetical to the United States Constitution.
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Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj accuses fellow Netflix show Bodyguard of Islamophobia
"Stay woke, Netflix!" Hasan Minhaj said in pointing out the irony of Netflix having the first Muslim talk show host...
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Posted Monday 9/10/18 at 8:51PM EDT
Study decries the stereotypical TV roles played by Americans of Middle Eastern and Northern African descent
Americans from the Middle East and North Africa account for 3.
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Posted Friday 5/25/18 at 7:45PM EDT
Racial jokes on network sitcoms too often reinforce stereotypes instead of subverting them
There is nothing wrong with jokes about race, says Yoonj Kim, who spent a week in March studying every network...
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Whitney Cummings departs as Roseanne's co-showrunner for Season 2
The comedian, who said she "became the PC police" on Roseanne while helping shepherd the revival, "is going to be...
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Posted Wednesday 5/09/18 at 10:52PM EDT
Roseanne's Muslim neighbor episode draws mixed responses
Some felt that Roseanne falsely thinking her Muslim neighbors are terrorists isn't even funny.
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Posted Tuesday 5/08/18 at 9:08PM EDT
How do you square Roseanne Barr with her fictional counterpart on Roseanne's Muslim neighbors episode?
The revelation that Barr inspired tonight's episode "invites a slew of reactions," says Kevin Fallon.