Original upload date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMT
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Death Threat is a comic farce about Yasmeen Siddiqui, a young Muslim woman. She has just written her first novel and can't understand why no less than fifty-nine publishers would reject a romantic epi
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c like The Unquenched Wench of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Thinking perhaps she is not controversial enough, Yasmeen sets out to exploit her sweet-natured fellow Muslims in order to get a death threat in the hopes of generating publicity. She deviously succeeds in getting an apparent bounty on her life. To her chagrin, the media becomes patronisingly interested in Yasmeen, the “poor oppressed Muslim woman,” rather than Yasmeen, the talented new kid in Canadian Lit.
Death Threat premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1998.
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