Ubaydah Abu-Usayd
1) Soumaya
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
Soumaya is fired one day from her corporate job of fourteen years, without explanation or warning. Later that night, while watching TV, she learns that media outlets are linking her, through speculation, to jihadist circles. Based on real events, SOUMAYA shines a light on the devastating repercussions of anti-terrorist policing and Islamophobia in the wake of the 2015 Paris attacks.
2) Soumaya
Publisher
Indiepix Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Français
Description
One day, Soumaya a woman of color, a practicing Muslim, a mother, and an executive at an airport transportation company in Paris - is fired from her job of fourteen years without explanation or warning. Later that night, while watching TV, she learns that certain media outlets are linking her, through speculation, to jihadist circles. This all occurs only days after Soumaya's apartment, where she lives with her young daughter, is raided by police....
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Arabic
Description
On January 29, 2017, a lone gunman entered a mosque in Quebec City, took the lives of six people, injured nineteen others and left an entire community in complete shock and grief. This act of hatred, fueled by racism and Islamophobia, transformed a place of worship and community to a site of unthinkable trauma. Through heartfelt testimonials, bear witness to the heartbreaking loss they've had to endure and commemorate one of the darkest days in recent...
