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Blogs, Bleader Jun 4, 2018
Chicago Underground Film Festival at 25: A look back

As the 25th Chicago Underground Film Festival approaches, here are ten stand-out features from festivals past.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Comedy, LGBTQ+, Music, On Video, Chicago Underground Film Festival, CUFF, underground, Half-Cocked, Suki Hawley, Michael Galinsky, Horns and Halos, Freakwater, Sleepyhead, Grifters, J.R. Jones, The Delicate Art of the Rifle, D.W. Harper, Charles Whitman, Stephen Grant, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Straightman, Ben Berkowitz, Benjamin Redgrave, John Cassavetes, Shadows, The Target Shoots First, Christopher Wilcha, Columbia Record and Tape Club, 60 Minutes, Migrating Forms, James Fotopoulos, Fred Camper, Benjamin Smoke, Jem Cohen, Peter Sillen, Robert Dickerson, Smoke, AIDS, Patti Smith, Nice Bombs, Usama Alshaibi, Baghdad, Iraq, Putty Hill, Hamilton, Matthew Porterfield, David Gordon Green, George Washington, Your Highness, The Color Wheel, Alex Ross Perry, Ronald Bronstein, Frownland, Carlen Altman, Two Years at Sea, Ben Rivers, Jake Williams, This Is My Land, Ben Sachs

Arts & Culture, Art Review Oct 12, 2016
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Moholy-Nagy isn’t the only major modernist in town right now

Over at the Graham Foundation, a retrospective of the work of Iraqi architect Rifat Chadirji is an unlikely and unintentional companion piece to the Art Institute’s “Moholy-Nagy: Future Present.”
- By Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: Art Review, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Moholy-Nagy: Future Present, Art Institute of Chicago, Bauhaus school, modernism, design, Rifat Chadirji, Graham Foundation, Guggenheim Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Architecture 1 (Construction on a Blue Ground)/Title unknown (verso), Every Building in Baghdad: The Rifat Chadirji Archives at the Arab Image Foundation, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Iraq, Baghdad, Administration and Training Institute for Baghdad's Ministry of Social Affairs, Saddam Hussein, Rowanduz, Latif Al Ani, Federation of Industries building Baghdad, E. Abboud building Baghdad, Nuclear I CH, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Mar 7, 2011
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Filmmaker Usama Alshaibi Says He Was Beaten in Anti-Arab attack

Usama Alshaibi, director of the in-progress documentary "American Arab," claims he was beaten March 6 in Fairfield, Iowa in an anti-Arab attack.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, News, Usama Alshaibi, Kristie Alshaibi, American Arab, Kartemquin, Fairfield, Iowa, attack, hate crime, Arab, Iraq, Baghdad, Nice Bombs, Muslim, Orange County, response, video, hate, documentary, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 12, 2010
Video
American Arab

Usama Alshaibi screens clips from his in-progress documentary "American Arab" and joins a panel discussion for Arab American Heritage Month, tonight at Columbia College.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Film, Free Shit, Swag, Books, Arab, Arab American, American Arab, Usama Alshaibi, Baghdad, Iraq, Iowa, Kartemquin, documentary, heritage month, Chicago Council on Arab Affairs, Columbia College, Marquette University, Roosevelt University, Ferguson Theater, Middle East, David Faris, Louis Cainkar, Homeland Insecurity, The Arab-American and Muslim Experience After 9/11, Taqwacore, Video

Film, Movie Feature Aug 5, 2010
From Iraq to Iowa

With a little help from Kartemquin Films, Usama Alshaibi documents the Arab-American experience.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Movie Feature, Stan Mansion, Usama Alshaibi, Baghdad, Nice Bombs, American Arab, Arab-Americans, Iraq, Basra, Ba'ath Party, Iran-Iraq War, Kartemquin Films, Columbia College, Chicago Historical Society, Kristie Drew, Muhammad and Jane, Studs Terkel, Marwan Kamel, taqwacore, Islamic punk, Subhi Jasser, Ray Hanania, Amal Abusumayah, Maharishi Peace Palace

Blogs, Bleader Oct 15, 2009
Video
Nice Bombs

Usama Alshaibi celebrates the DVD release of his personal Iraq documentary "Nice Bombs" with two free screenings Friday 10/16 at the Portage Theater.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Politics, Free Shit, Swag, Clout City, Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Baghdad, Iowa, Columbia College, Nice Bombs, Usama Alshaibi Kristie Alshaibi, Cinema Obscura, Profane, dominatrix, Islam, Muslim, Kartemquin, Arab in America, Diversity Fellowship, Lebanese, Toufic El Rassi, Video

Film, Movie Review Jul 9, 2009
Video
Recent History

The Hurt Locker: the first post-Iraq Iraq war movie
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, U.S. Army, Baghdad, Iraq war, Venice film festival, Vietnam war, Platoon Oliver Stone, Full Metal Jacket, Mark Boal, Paul Haggis, In the Valley of Elah, The Deer Hunter, Coming Home, Afghanistan, Jeremy Renner, Video

News & Politics, Our Town Feb 3, 2005
Uday's Hypnotist

A Chicagoan fondly remembers his time in the service of Saddam's son.
- By Grant Pick
- Tags: Our Town, TRG Cover Feature, Al Rashid Hotel, Al Amariyah bomb shelter, Baghdad, Saddam Fedayeen, National Guild of Hypnotists, Larry Garrett, Dwight Damon, Uday Hussein, Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Fred Schiavo, hypnosis, hypnotists, West Logan Square Newsletter

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Chicago Underground Film Festival at 25: A look back

As the 25th Chicago Underground Film Festival approaches, here are ten stand-out features from festivals past.

Recommended
Moholy-Nagy isn’t the only major modernist in town right now

Over at the Graham Foundation, a retrospective of the work of Iraqi architect Rifat Chadirji is an unlikely and unintentional companion piece to the Art Institute’s “Moholy-Nagy: Future Present.”

Video
Filmmaker Usama Alshaibi Says He Was Beaten in Anti-Arab attack

Usama Alshaibi, director of the in-progress documentary "American Arab," claims he was beaten March 6 in Fairfield, Iowa in an anti-Arab attack.

Video
American Arab

Usama Alshaibi screens clips from his in-progress documentary "American Arab" and joins a panel discussion for Arab American Heritage Month, tonight at Columbia College.

From Iraq to Iowa

With a little help from Kartemquin Films, Usama Alshaibi documents the Arab-American experience.

Video
Nice Bombs

Usama Alshaibi celebrates the DVD release of his personal Iraq documentary "Nice Bombs" with two free screenings Friday 10/16 at the Portage Theater.

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Recent History

The Hurt Locker: the first post-Iraq Iraq war movie

Uday's Hypnotist

A Chicagoan fondly remembers his time in the service of Saddam's son.

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As the 25th Chicago Underground Film Festival approaches, here are ten stand-out features from festivals past.

Over at the Graham Foundation, a retrospective of the work of Iraqi architect Rifat Chadirji is an unlikely and unintentional companion piece to the Art Institute’s “Moholy-Nagy: Future Present.”

Usama Alshaibi, director of the in-progress documentary "American Arab," claims he was beaten March 6 in Fairfield, Iowa in an anti-Arab attack.

Usama Alshaibi screens clips from his in-progress documentary "American Arab" and joins a panel discussion for Arab American Heritage Month, tonight at Columbia College.

With a little help from Kartemquin Films, Usama Alshaibi documents the Arab-American experience.

Usama Alshaibi celebrates the DVD release of his personal Iraq documentary "Nice Bombs" with two free screenings Friday 10/16 at the Portage Theater.

The Hurt Locker: the first post-Iraq Iraq war movie

A Chicagoan fondly remembers his time in the service of Saddam's son.

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