15 min read Share Jack Shaheen’s 2009 book “Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People” amounts to a 600-page blacklist of lampoons, insults or distortions of Arabs in movies. Many titles on the list belong there. Most aren’t exactly shrines to great cinema: “The Lady of the Harem” (1926); “Tarzan and the Leopard Woman” (1946); “Kiss the Other Sheik” (1968); “The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington” (1977); “Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh” (1991). Such B movies use caricature as their stock-in-trade, making us wonder if anyone, Arabs or no, comes off “looking real.” Less easily...…15 min read Share Jack Shaheen’s 2009 book “Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People” amounts to a 600-page blacklist of lampoons, insults or distortions of Arabs in movies. Many titles on the list belong there. Most aren’t exactly shrines to great cinema: “The Lady of the Harem” (1926); “Tarzan and the Leopard Woman” (1946); “Kiss the Other Sheik” (1968); “The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington” (1977); “Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh” (1991). Such B movies use caricature as their stock-in-trade, making us wonder if anyone, Arabs or no, comes off “looking real.” Less easily...WW…