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and her family. Dabi categorically exploits specific film elements such as music, lighting, 
camera, and shots to capture the audience’s attention to considering the characters. 
      Amreeka highlights several stereotyping approaches within the film. While high 
schooling, Fadi could get subjected to quick racist remarks from comrade teens; a teenage group 
always associated Fadi to being bound to terrorism. The criticism directed to Fadi culminated in 
a period when all the Americans had the thought that the entire population of the Arabian nations 
was typically Islam (Huffingtonpost.com, 2009).  There existed the belief that youngsters, as 
well as teenage Muslim boys, had secret alliances with the Muslim extremist groups. For 
instance, upon Fadi’s arrest by the corps, there would emanate accusations as well as severe 
speculations about Fadi’s connections with the Muslim world and terrorists which would then 
require further investigations before Fadi’s eventual release. 
      An officer would, therefore, get obliged to consider that terrorist-related issues are quite 
severe. Despite Fadi having Arabic routes, the setting of Amreeka got released in 2003, a period 
when most Americans were quite bitter with the Arabian world strategic maneuvers as had been 
witnessed through the Iraqi-American War as well as the perpetrated 9/11 waged bombing. 
Currently, Americans still perceive all Arabians as being Muslims; bombing jokes become the 
day’s order instead. Again, Donald Trump, the current U.S. President through his hardline stance 
against Muslims, Trump has categorically hinted out about plans to forfeit Islamic immigration 
into America through enacting stringent as well as ruthless migratory bans. 
      In Amreeka, Cherien utilizes several elements. Dabis could extend intimacy to Muna 
through the use of camera close up strategies. Close up specifics gets revealed in one of the 
scenes when Muna typically fell backward on her back while she undertook some of her