Everyday People and Everyday Psychopaths (The Live Show)
“Season 3 of See Something Say Something debuts next week, but before that, a little taste of what we've been doing during our summer break — we recently brought all your favorite things to the stage in Dearborn, Michigan: comics, advice to Hollywood execs, and the true beauty of Dearborn restaurants (Hint: always order the platter).
Co-presented with the Arab American National Museum, the show features poet, Hugo-nominated author of Throne of the Crescent Moon and writer for Marvel’s Black Bolt series Saladin Ahmed, Asha Noor from CAIR-MI, Evelyn Alsultany an associate professor at U-Mich; and Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative (MuslimARC) Namira Islam.”
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“The show featured five guests, all of whom are Michigan residents. Hip hop artist Omar Zidan, otherwise known by his stage name “Big O Muziq,” led off and closed out the show with a song.
The show also featured Saladin Ahmed, poet, author and comic book writer; Evelyn Alsultany, associate professor and director of Arab and Muslim American studies at the University of Michigan; Asha Noor, racial justice and human rights activist; and Namira Islam, co-director of the Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative.
Akbar and his guests touched on the history of Arab immigration to Dearborn, representations of Arabs in pop culture and pondered the question: “Is Dearborn the Muslim capital of America?””