Cinema Nights at the Museum + Iftar – 36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime

5-9 p.m. ET Saturday, March 15, 2025

Cinema Nights at the Museum + Iftar – 36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime

In-person at AANM
$2o Museum Member | $25 Student/Senior | $30 General Public

The Arab American National Museum (AANM) and Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) are pleased to bring the important social justice documentary, 36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime, directed by Tarek Albaba.

In 2015, three Muslim American students were executed while eating dinner in their home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The film charts the victims’ families’ overnight pivot from trauma to advocacy as they struggle to prevent their loved ones’ deaths from being dismissed as the result of a random parking dispute. They courageously speak the truth about the hate crime that has destroyed their lives, about the overt and insidious ways racism plays out in our society and about the need to reform a hate crime system that is broken.

Immediately following the screening, we are pleased to be joined in-person by director Tarek Albaba for an intimate talkback, followed by a delicious Iftar meal.

United States/Documentary/99 minutes/Directed by Tarek Albaba/English/In-Person Screening

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