Take a journey into the much talked about but little known American community in Mara Ahmed’s personal documentary that focuses on the Pakistani American community in Rochester. Immediately following the...

The beginning of the film examines many of the images Ahmed sees as examples of the media depicting Muslims as one homogenous group of men with rifles parading through the...

Claim to fame: Pakistani-born Mara Ahmed wrote, directed, edited and financed a 54-minute documentary, The Muslims I Know. Other iterations: Pittsford artist, homemaker, former economics analyst, wife to physician Aitezaz...

Occupation: Filmmaker (producer, director, writer), artist and senior financial analyst (in my past life). Community activities: Member of Rochester Against War, Women in Film and Television Rochester and interested in...

I hate to blow the ending of a movie, but the Muslims that local filmmaker Mara Ahmed knows are pretty much like the people of faith that you know, cherishing...

When Mara Ahmed moved to the United States from Pakistan with her husband in 1993, the world was a different place. Terms like “Muslim Extremist” and “Islamic Jihad” barely registered...