Posted by BeautyandtheEast on 02-17-2010 | Comments | Share | Filed under: Entertainment, Film/TV, Fashion-Eastas, Beauty
She was cut from last week’s episode of Shear Genius on Bravo for what the judges called a “safe” updo, but Arzo is a talent to watch. Born in Afghanistan, raised in New York City and currently residing in San Francisco, Arzo’s experience includes platform education, traditional hairdressing and editorial work. Arzo has styled the likes of Rose McGowan and Ally Hilfiger. Editorially she has worked with clients that include Bed Bath & Beyond, MTV and Hood Star Magazine. Arzo has owned and operated a hair studio in Pleasanton, California for fifteen years.
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Posted by BeautyandtheEast on 02-17-2010 | Comments | Share | Filed under: Entertainment, Film/TV
One of the most famous actors in the world - Bollywood uberstar Shah Rukh Khan stars in the just released My Name Is Khan, written by Shibani Bathija. The plot centers around a Muslim child (Rizwan Khan) who grows up in a middle class family in Mumbai. Rizwan is different from the other children and no one, including his mother, can understand why. As an adult, Khan moves to San Francisco and is diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, a disorder which makes it difficult for people to interact socially. Rizwan meets a Hindu woman, and despite hostility to the match, they marry. The Khans’ existence gets disrupted, however, after 9/11 when they begin to experience prejudice in their community because of their Muslim roots. Khan then sets out on a journey that takes him from one U.S. state to another in order to prove that he is not a terrorist.
The irony is that in August 2009, when Shah Rukh Khan (a Muslim), came to the U.S. to promote the film, he was detained and questioned for two hours at Newark Liberty International Airport because of his “Khan” name, infuriating Indian leaders and fans around the world. A case where life imitates art, and vice versa.
Trailer:
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Posted by BeautyandtheEast on 02-13-2010 | Comments | Share | Filed under: Entertainment, Comedy, Film/TV
You may recognize him from his regular stint on John Stewart’s The Daily Show or as the disgruntled office employee in Sandra Bullock’s The Proposal. Actor/comedian Aasif Mandvi was born in India to a Muslim family before moving to England then Tampa, Florida when he was 16 years old. After studying theatre at the University of South Florida, he moved to New York City where he began appearing in off-Broadway productions. He won an Obie Award for his critically acclaimed one-man show Sakina’s Restaurant.
He has since appeared on ER, The Sopranos, Sex and the City, CSI, Oz, Ed, The Bedford Diaries, Jericho, Sleeper Cell, Law & Order, and the Daily Show. His film credits include The Siege, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Analyze This, Ghost Town, and M. Night Shyamalan’s upcoming film The Last Airbender.
As a Daily Show correspondent, he not only reports on brown people, he talks to them:
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Posted by BeautyandtheEast on 02-09-2010 | Comments | Share | Filed under: Entertainment, Film/TV
He played the interrogator in Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire, a Pakistani police captain in A Mighty Heart, the remote immigrant father in The Namesake. Slumdog director Danny Boyle says, “He is a touchstone connecting two worlds”. Some have dubbed him as “Asia’s Finest Actor”.
Born in 1962, Irrfan Khan grew up in Jaipur, a city of crumbling palaces in the north Indian desert, as the eldest son of a conservative, aristocratic Muslim family. He enrolled in the National School of Drama in New Delhi before landing a fleeting appearance in Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay. 18 years later, he has received recognition for his roles in The Warrior (2001), Maqbool (2003), Haasil (2004), The Namesake (2006), A Mighty Heart (2007), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Billu (2009), New York, I Love You (2009), and Vodafone commercials. He has won two Filmfare Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Independent Spirit Award nomination.
Here’s a scene from The Namesake:
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Posted by BeautyandtheEast on 02-07-2010 | Comments | Share | Filed under: Entertainment, Film/TV
Masroor Malik is an actor and a filmmaker (director, producer, and writer) who tries to facilitate a better understanding of cultures, religions, and ethnicities through film. He produced “Bassem Is Trying”, a short 1 minute film about the struggles of a hapless Muslim man trying to prove himself to the world.
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Posted by BeautyandtheEast on 02-06-2010 | Comments | Share | Filed under: Entertainment, Comedy
Arabs Gone Wild is coming to California! Don’t miss this smash comedy team in San Francisco and LA:
February 11: San Francisco at Cobbs Comedy Club
February 13: Anaheim at House of Blues
February 18: Los Angeles at The Comedy Store
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Posted by BeautyandtheEast on 02-03-2010 | Comments | Share | Filed under: Entertainment, Comedy
Looking back at President Obama’s 1st year in office and race in America on MSNBC. This segment includes clips from Arab-American comedian Dean Obeidallah.
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Posted by BeautyandtheEast on 02-03-2010 | Comments | Share | Filed under: Entertainment, Film/TV
A movie that began as a project in a University of Michigan film class has beaten out thousands of other entries for a spot at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Bilal’s Stand, the creation of 25-year-old Michigan graduate Sultan Sharrief, is one of eight films in the category, out of about 7,000 submissions. “This story is highly personal, about as personal as you can get,” Sharrief said in a video interview released by the university. “It’s about my life and my family … growing up in Detroit.” Five years in the making, the film tells of an African-American Muslim high school student who works for his family’s cab company.
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Posted by BeautyandtheEast on 02-03-2010 | Comments | Share | Filed under: Entertainment, Music
Junoon—which in the Urdu language means passion—is the name of the band led by Salman Ahmad. Ahmad’s new autobiography, Rock & Roll Jihad: A Muslim Rock Star’s Revolution, is the story of his passion for making music and of rock as a force to unite people.
Here’s a little bit more about Salman:
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Posted by BeautyandtheEast on 02-01-2010 | Comments | Share | Filed under: Entertainment, Music
Ahmad Zahir is the latest of NPR’s 50 Great Voices: influential singers around the world — living or dead, famous or not. Zahir was, and still is, the most famous singer in Afghanistan, often compared to Elvis. Like Elvis, the Afghan singer touched generations and kept his fan base for decades after he died in the 1970s.
Zahir’s rendition of Elvis Presley’s “It’s Now or Never” :
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