New Muslim Cool

Chris Strollo

The Film opens on the city of Pittsburgh where Hamza Perez is seen walking through the streets while narrating about his two recurring life prophecies that would come to him in dreams. One of his dreams was experiencing death at the age of 21, the second was him being in jail. Later he reveals both prophecies had come true. Hamza explains that at the age ofhe became a Muslim, therefore he experienced a death of all his past doings. According to Hamza, one day while he was on the street smoking marijuana, a sheikh approached him to talk about Islam and that is when he knew things were going to change.While Hamza visits his brother Suliman to cook Boricua Halal cooking Puerto Rican Kosher cooking the two brothers talk about their cultural hybridity and how they communicate through Arabic spanglish ebonics since they dont speak Arabic, English, or Spanish fluently. In a family gathering, Hamza and Sulimans mother Gladys expresses her hesitation about the religion since both brothers were brought up in a Catholic home and attended private Catholic school. Gladys reveals that Hamzas birth given name is Jason, and although she is still unsure about the religion Gladys has accepts the decision of her two sons. The two brothers travel to Harlem to conduct an interview for a radio station where they talk about their music and religious message. While still in New York, Hamza visits the projects where he reaches out to young since he works for a social service agency as an antidrug counselor. ........

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