The 2013 NC Latin American Film Festival presents:

New Muslim Cool

(Jennifer Maytorena Taylor, 2009, 83 min, USA, English, Color, DVD)
 

--Q&A to follow with director Jennifer Maytorena Taylor!

Puerto Rican American rapper Hamza Pérez ended his life as a drug dealer 12 years ago, and started down a new path as a young Muslim. Now he's moved to Pittsburgh's tough North Side to start a new religious community, rebuild his shattered family, and take his message of faith to other young people through his uncompromising music as part of the hip-hop duo M-Team.

New Muslim Cool takes viewers on Hamza's ride through the streets, projects and jail cells of urban America, following his spiritual journey to some surprising places - where we can all see ourselves reflected in a world that never stops changing.

-- This screening is part of the Center for European Studies' initiative, "Jews & Muslims: Histories, Diasporas, and the Meaning of the European," funded through a Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant and the Duke University Office of the Provost.

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: The UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Center for European Studies, the Center for Jewish Studies, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Duke Islamic Studies Center, the Office of the Provost, and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)