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"The Sheik (1921) set the stage for the exploration and negative portrayal of Arabs in Hollywood films. The Sheik represented Arab characters as thieves, charlatans, murderers, and brutes" (http://www.wikipedia.org)
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Simon singles out A Son of the Sahara (1924) as "the strongest subconscious attack on the Arab culture of all the Arab movies of the 1920s." (http://www.wikipedia.org)
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"Based on a successful 1975 novel by Thomas Harris, concerns an Arab terrorist plot to bomb a stadium during the Super Bowl." (http://www.wikipedia.org)
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"Opens with Arabs mistreating a horse aboard a ship, then attacking a boy with a knife and stealing his life jacket"(http://www.wikipedia.org)
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"went so far as to name a specific country, referring to antagonists in the film as "Libyan nationalists" (http://www.wikipedia.org)
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