TY - JOUR ID - TI - The Negative Portrayal of Arabs in American Films AU - Azhar Hameed Mankhy PY - 2013 VL - 1 IS - 13 SP - 516 EP - 526 JO - Journal of The College of Education مجلة كلية التربية SN - 24171994 25185586 AB - Abstract: The original inspiration of my project stems from a very simple observation: that Arab characters are often represented in a conventional and pessimistic manner in most American films that have perpetuated an ethnically discriminated image of Arabs. In other words ,the paper broadly discusses the cruel representation of Arabs in American films that contributed in generating a number of cultural misconceptions about them. In this paper, I intend to examine the reasons why film -makers keep presenting Arabs as psychopathetic terrorists, absurd, prehistoric and substandard. I intend to assert that Arabs today-as they were more than 70 years ago-are described in American films as being robbers, ,cruel, vicious, uncultured, and religious fanatics. I go up against those who maintain that the image of the Arab is roughly distorted and stained only after September the eleventh attack on the United States in 2001.

يركز هذا البحث على الشخصيات العربية التي تصور بطريقة سلبية في اغلب الافلام الامريكية.كما يناقش الوصف اللاانساني للعرب فى الافلام الامريكية التي ساهمت بزيادة الحقد العرقي ضد العرب.اسعى في هذا البحث الى بيان اسباب هذا الحقد وبيان اسباب وصف العرب بانهم ارهاببيين وبدائيين ومتوحشيين.كما اؤكد على ان هذة الصورة كانت موجودة قبل مايقارب السبعين سنة وليس كما يزعم البعض بان العرب ظهروا كأرهابيين فقط بعد احداث 11 سبتمبر. ER -