A new film on WORLD Channel's "America ReFramed," aired on PBS stations, asks what it means to be Arab-American. Usama Alshaibi, who teaches film studies at Colorado State University and CU Boulder, looks at his own family's identity. He moved from Iraq to the United States before 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
His film, "American Arab," recounts his experience as the victim of what he calls a hate crime, where a group of teenagers attacked him after hearing his name. Alshaibi spoke with Colorado Matters host Ryan Warner.
