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In 2022 the Sundance Film Festival accepted, but then cancelled, Meg Smaker’s documentary about Guantánamo inmates and other accused terrorists living in a rehabilitation center in Saudi Arabia. Meg swears JIHAD REHAB will come out, under a new title, in 2025. We talk about that and a bunch of other things, including pirates, boxing, the California wildfires, adventures in Arabic, and chewing khat in New York bodegas.

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Resources:

“Cowardice at Sundance,” The Atlantic, by Graeme Wood

“Sundance Liked Her Documentary on Terrorism Until It Didn’t,” The New York Times, by Michael Powell

“Why Filmmakers Have Had a Problem with ‘Jihad Rehab’ for years,” IDA website

Website for the film now called “Unredacted”