2015, Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People by Jack Shaheen,

First published in 2001, this is an Updated Edition published in 2015 by Olive Branch Press.  Overall in LIKE NEW CONDITION, with only very light cover edge wear.  617 clean and solidly bound pages with no interior markings except for a NICE INSCRIPTION BY AUTHOR JACK G. SHAHEEN TO "GEORGE".  The George he inscribed to is George Hishmeh, a noted journalist.  From his obituary in 2021: "George Hishmeh Palestinian-American journalist George Hishmeh passed away on October 7, 2021 at the age of 88. He was born on December 29, 1932, in Nazareth, Palestine, to Salim and Asma Hishmeh. George's family lived in his beloved Haifa until 1948, when the Hishmeh family fled Palestine for Beirut, Lebanon. George was the Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Star (Beirut) from 1962-1967. In 1967, he founded the first English newspaper in Libya. After emigrating to the US, George worked at the Chicago Sun-Times before becoming assistant foreign editor at The Washington Post, the first Palestinian editor on staff. He later joined the United States Information Agency and started their first Arabic language magazine, Al-Majal."
A  documentary movie was made from the book.  Here is a synopsis of the movie:
"Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People is a documentary film directed by Sut Jhally and produced by Media Education Foundation in 2006. This film is an extension of the book of the same name by Jack Shaheen, which also analyzes how Hollywood corrupts or manipulates the image of Arabs. The documentary analyzes 1,000 films that have Arab and Muslim characters, produced between 1896 to 2000, out of which great majority, 936 titles, were negative in their portrayal, arguing that the slander of Arabs in American filmmaking has existed since the early days of the silent cinema and is present in the biggest Hollywood blockbusters today. Jack Shaheen analyzes a long series of "demeaning" images of Arabs through his presentation of various scenes from different American movies which he has studied. He argues that this image is characterized by showing Arabs either as bandits or as a savage, nomadic race, or shows Arab women as shallow belly dancers serving evil, naïve, and greedy Arab sheiks. Most important is the image of the rifle in the hands of Arab "terrorists". The film then attempts to explain the motivations behind these stereotypes about Arabs, and their development at key points in American history, as well as why it is so important today."
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