Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/author/evelyn-alsultany/)
Evelyn Alsultany is a leading expert on the history of representations of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. media and on forms of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racism. Alsultany is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
In retweeting a doctored image of Nancy Pelosi standing in a hijab in front of an Iranian flag, Trump is playing into fears that Iran and Islam are evil and anti-American.
While the 2019 ‘Aladdin’ is a big improvement from the 1992 version, it still recycles some old tropes.