This documentary project critically examines the dominant discourse in the West, particularly in the United States, about the supposed relationship between Arabs and Terrorism. The project is divided into three miniseries filmed across the globe (USA, France, UK, Netherlands, Spain, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Israel). It includes 125 distinguished interviewees in 11 Countries, and dozens of street interviews.

Researched in six languages, this documentary project is a critical examination of the implicit, and often explicit, connection made in the West—primarily in the United States government and mainstream media discourses—between Arabs and “terrorism.” The aim of this project, the most comprehensive audio-visual treatment of the subject to date, is to examine these perceptions (of Arabs and “terrorism”), elucidate their origin, and assess their validity..

The first miniseries (three episodes) of the documentary component of this project – Definitions of Terrorism, State Terrorism, and Terrorism and Resistance – follow the director, Bassam Haddad, an Arab-American political science professor, through the United States, Europe, and the Middle East as he converses with politicians, media personalities, academics, civil society advocates, accused terrorists/resistance leaders, and hundreds of people on the street in a direct, detailed investigation of the grammar and vocabulary of the mainstream Western discourse and its critics