The Taqwacores (film)

The Taqwacores is a 2010 film adaptation of the 2003 novel The Taqwacores by Michael Muhammad Knight. The film was directed by Eyad Zahra and stars Bobby Naderi, Dominic Rains, and Noureen Dewulf. The film imagines a fictitious Islamic punk rock scene through characters living in a punk house in Buffalo, New York. It was filmed in Cleveland, Ohio.

Others include evershirtless skateboarding wild man Amazing Ayyub Volkan Eryaman, spikehaired stoner Fasiq Ian Tran and brawny, glowering Umar Nav Mann, the wouldbe moral enforcer in a houseful of rebels against Koranic strictures. Sole female in residence is Rabeya Noureen DeWulf, who wears a headtotoe burka yet is full of ideas that might be considered blasphemous.The Taqwacores features an original score by Los Angeles composer, Omar Fadel, as well as licensed music from The Kominas and AlThawra. ........

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