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What is it like to be Muslim in America? TLC answers that question with All-American Muslim, a powerful series that goes inside the rarely seen world of American Muslims to uncover a unique community struggling to balance faith and nationality in a post 9/11 world.
All-American Muslim follows the daily lives of five American Muslim families in Dearborn, Michigan, one of the most established and largest concentrations of American Muslims in the country. Each episode offers an intimate look at customs and celebrations, as well as misconceptions, conflicts, and differences these families face outside and within their own community.
From the challenges of marriage to juggling busy careers while raising a family, the families featured in All-American Muslim share their biggest celebrations and their unexpected challenges. The show reveals how these individuals negotiate universal family issues while remaining faithful to the traditions and beliefs of their faith.
Though they all share a same religion, the families of All-American Muslim lead very different lives. Among the families profiled:
All-American Muslim follows the daily lives of five American Muslim families in Dearborn, Michigan, one of the most established and largest concentrations of American Muslims in the country. Each episode offers an intimate look at customs and celebrations, as well as misconceptions, conflicts, and differences these families face outside and within their own community.
From the challenges of marriage to juggling busy careers while raising a family, the families featured in All-American Muslim share their biggest celebrations and their unexpected challenges. The show reveals how these individuals negotiate universal family issues while remaining faithful to the traditions and beliefs of their faith.
Though they all share a same religion, the families of All-American Muslim lead very different lives. Among the families profiled:
- Suehaila and Shadia: Suehaila wears a traditional headscarf and follows daily prayer rituals, while Shadia, her outspoken sister, is decorated with piercings and tattoos and recently married Jeff, an Irish Catholic who is converting to Islam.
- Nader and Nawal Aoude: Newlyweds expecting their first baby, Nader and Nawal are working to strike the right balance between their traditional Muslim roots and American culture.
- Fouad Zaban: As head coach of the Fordson High School football team, Fouad has pioneered a shift in his team's summer practice schedule by switching to night workouts to accomodate the majority of his team players who are Muslim and fasting for Ramadan.
- Mike and Angela Jaafar: Mike, a deputy chief sheriff, and his wife Angela, a consultant to a major auto manufacturer, are juggling their busy careers with raising their four children in a modern Muslim family.
- Nina Bazzy: A strong independent Muslim businesswoman, Nina's family runs the premier wedding and banquet hall in Dearborn—but against their advice, she is trying to venture off on her own to open a nightclub.
- Samira Amen-Fawaz and Ali Fawaz: Samira and Ali struggle with fertility issues and are pursuing numerous options, including conventional fertility techniques, dietary alternatives, and Muslim supplication prayers. After years of unsuccessful attempts, Samira is considering putting on the Hijab in order to be closer to God and be blessed with a child.
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Isn't this the Sister Wives page?
ReplyDeleteI hope these folks are most honest and likeable than the Browns. And, TALK about their religion!
ReplyDeleteDoes this mean you guys are going to cover it? YEAHHHHHHH I WILL watch then.
ReplyDeleteI am an American Muslim and looking forward to this show. Can't wait :)
ReplyDeleteI am so happy to see this! I think a lot of the fear of Muslims in the US simply comes from most people not knowing any and only having stereotypes to rely on when they think of them.
ReplyDeleteTLC will probably crank up the cheese on this but nonetheless I hope the end product is showing that these families are just average old joes with the same boring problems as everyone else.
This will be an interesting challenge for Cynical Jinx -- can you make your reviews for this show as entertaining and fun as your reviews for the Browns - minus the snark factor? I'm making the bold assumption that this family won't paint giant archery targets on their chests as the Browns do, so humor will have to be in a different form. Your writing is brilliant and looking forward to seeing you rise to the occasion!
ReplyDeleteIt will go south the way all reality shows do. There's no audience unless there's drama and the scripts make sure they create that.
ReplyDeleteI'm not expecting anything different from this one. Why fix something if it ain't broke?
I am very much interested in this show, I know nothing about the Muslim faith and am always open to learning. Maybe we will see some 'real' people and not a bunch of scripted fibs. I look foreword to Sunday!
ReplyDeleteGoogle is a much more educated way to learn about someone's faith than a "reality" show.
ReplyDeleteJust like Troy Bowles has educated us here (which by the way you could find him by googling) and also i've pulled up tons of information regarding AUB by googling. I've not learned much at all about the religion from Sister Wives and expect the same from the new Muslim show. it will be more mindless entertainment over educational substance. Mindless entertainment can be my guilty pleasure at times but I don't confuse it with education by any means.
Islamic polygamy is every bit the human rights disaster as the Mormon-based variety. The doctrine may be different, but the reality is the same: it's dominated by patriarchy and that turns women into property.
ReplyDeleteWe can have a long talk about Islam and I wouldn't be spouting ignorance. Philosophy of religion is one of my specialties. The Muslim polygamists I've talked to didn't even seem to know their own Qu'ran.
How many more religious carnival shows are waiting in line for their 15 minutes of fame?
ReplyDeleteI thought this was a blog on Sister Wives?? It's great it you want to cover "American Muslim", but can't you just start a separate blog for that? People who go on a SISTER WIVES blog are looking for info/posts on SISTER WIVES!!! Start a separate page for other shows you wish to cover.
ReplyDelete"We started as a place to talk about the show “Sister Wives”. Now, we’re so much more, we discuss lawsuits, child abuse, Warren Jeffs, AUB and FLDS, Mormon religion, polygamy, and will be watching “All American Muslim”.
ReplyDeleteVERY CLEARLY STATED IN THE TOP OF THE BLOG A LONG TIME AGO.
We will not be making a separate page. It is far too much work, and Sister wives will be off when Al American Muslim is on.
Sorry if you don't care for it, however, we here at on Crew put in ENDLESS for free to make this blog happen. It's been stated from the very day American Muslim was announced.
That's too bad. I like this blog for things that are Sister Wives related, not American Muslim. I'm sure there are others who are interested in American Muslim but not Sister Wives. It seems having the two combined on one board will lead to either fights on the board or people leaving and missing out on some great comments.
ReplyDeleteI myself, feel like they can do what they want on their own blogger.
ReplyDeleteIf ppl argue, they will block them, I am sure. They don't mess around here.