'An al-Yahud, or About the Jews, is American Jewish Committee (AJC)’s groundbreaking Arabic-language online video series aimed at increasing understanding of the Jewish people in the Arab world. Videos are available here in both Arabic and English.
Murder, arbitrary imprisonment, torture, rape, persecution, and enforced disappearance are among the crimes the Iranian regime inflicted against thousands of its citizens who dared to voice their opposition to the regime’s systematic discrimination against women and girls.
The son of Pakistani immigrants who lived in suburban Milwaukee, Akhtar, now 45, won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his first play, “Disgraced,” the tale of an ambitious young New York attorney who attempts to mask his Muslim faith and his ethnic identity, to tragic consequences.