When I was growing up, my parents didn’t want my sisters and me to watch Disney’s Aladdin. As children, we were the target audience for the 1992 classic. But the movie set in the make-believe Agrabah was rife with offensive and harmful stereotypes of the Middle East and Arabs. Read More
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