The Great Muslim American Road Trip - Screening and conversation with producer Jawaad Abdul Rahman

Free with admission

Join us for a special screening of The Great Muslim American Road Trip, the award-winning PBS documentary that follows a Muslim American couple as they journey along historic Route 66. Through encounters with jazz musicians in Tulsa, community leaders in Chicago, historians in New Mexico, tech innovators, and a date-farming family in the Coachella Valley, the film reveals the many ways Muslims have shaped American culture and life.

For this program, producer Jawaad Abdul Rahman will guide the audience through a curated selection of clips—approximately 40 minutes drawn from the three-hour documentary series—and offer insights into the stories behind the scenes. Presented as a travelogue, the film invites viewers to experience American history through a fresh and engaging lens, with time for audience questions and discussion. The program will conclude with brief remarks highlighting connections to Muslim history in Albany and early America.

 

Watch the trailer and find out more about The Great Muslim American Road Trip here.

Jawaad Abdul Rahman is the Director of Development and Executive Producer at Unity Productions Foundation, having worked on numerous award-winning UPF films including the Emmy-Nominated Sultan and the Saint, Wilbur-Award Winning American Muslims: Fact v. Fiction and Lamya's Poem, which tells the story of a young refugee girl who meets the famous poet Rumi. Through UPF’s outreach efforts, he’s led dialogue events nationwide with seemingly disparate groups, such as Muslims and Evangelicals. Through UPF’s MOST resource center to improve the cultural competence of creatives in Hollywood, he has advised screenwriters on popular tv-series including Transplant, Madam Secretary and many others. Before UPF he founded the American Muslims Unite for Life Campaign which registered thousands of American Muslims to donate their bone marrow as a possible cure for blood cancers to their fellow Americans. He is a frequent lecturer to non-profit executives and to youth.

 

 

Documentary stills: Adam McCall/Unity Productions Foundation

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