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Jan 22, 2010 · Director Eyad Zahra on his background and Sundance project “The Taqwacores”… I’m a Cleveland, Ohio native, who now lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
- Indiewire
Oct 19, 2010 · Fresh off premiering his film at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Eyad Zahra’s directorial debut “ The Taqwacores ” hits theaters in New York this Friday, October 22. In...
Oct 21, 2010 · Based on a cult novel, Eyad Zahra's film follows a straight-laced engineering student's discovery of the Islamic punk-rock scene. Yusef's often-startled eyes, and the fearlessly jumpy filming...
Oct 22, 2010 · The film, directed by Eyad Zahra, is based on a novel by Michael Muhammad Knight about a fictitious Muslim punk scene in the United States. The tale is told through the eyes of Yusef (Bobby...
- Eyad Zahra
Mar 24, 2010 · For his first feature film, director Eyad Zahra sought out to make a film in which “Americans can truly see Muslims as Americans, and Muslims can truly see themselves as American”. Oh, to be young, beautiful, Muslim--and punk rockers! Here's one story of disaffected American youth we haven't seen before.
- Indiewire
Meet the Artists: Eyad Zahra on "The Taqwacores" Sundance Film Festival 2010
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Eyad Zahra is known for The Taqwacores (2010), 3azima (2003) and Distance from the Sun (2004).
