EDITOR’S NOTE: This review was originally published as part of indieWIRE’s coverage of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. “Amreeka” opens this Friday. Palestinian filmmaker Cherien Dabis’s “Amreeka” — ...

The Sundance crowd-pleaser "Amreeka" has sealed a theatrical deal. National Geographic Entertainment has bought all rights to the immigrant dramedy and plans a fall release. By Steven Zeitchik, The ...

I didn’t respond to the changes in the way people are beginning to view cinema today. My story development process, which began back in 2003, was very much influenced by my own personal experience and ...

Cherien Dabis' feature debut Amreeka, a richly observed story of Arab-American immigrants in middle America, hits very close to home. 'I grew up in Ohio, going back to Jordan every summer,' Dabis says ...

Muna Farah (Nisreen Faour), the Palestian single mother who moves with her son from the West Bank to Illinois in the new film Amreeka, is painfully unprepared for the world outside the West Bank. When ...

Even for a small film of surpassing quality, “Amreeka” has received a surprising amount of recognition. It was a success at Sundance and at the opening night of New York’s prestigious New ...

Nat’l Geo fosters ‘Amreeka’ dream The Sundance crowd-pleaser "Amreeka" has sealed a theatrical deal. National Geographic Entertainment has bought all rights to the immigrant dramedy, including ...

During Wafaa Bilal’s childhood in Kufa, Iraq, his parents held one rule above all others: Do not, under any circumstances, talk about the regime. The young artist and his friends wondered if the walls ...

Onetime The L Word writer Cherien Dabis’s convictions far outweigh her fear of obstacles. Raised in the Midwest by a Jordanian mother and a Palestinian father, Dabis spent five years during the George ...

Director Cherien Dabis put wit into her tale of a Palestinian stuck in the heartland. Amreeka, the tale of a Palestinian woman stranded in the American Midwest, might seem to be an exotic art-house ...

Drama. Written and directed by Cherien Dabis. With Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem and Hiam Abbass. In English and Arabic with English subtitles. (PG-13. 96 minutes. At the Embarcadero and Shattuck ...