Education is key to enabling hope for our young people. It can help them to take their dreams to reality. Aspirations are realized with quality, well balanced and broad-based education is combined with grounded moral principles and instilled at all levels of the educational spectrum.
Through a broad and diverse spectrum of mediums including, media, written and visual publications, workshops, civic engagement, sponsorship, and interfaith dialogue. AFF seeks to support the most creative and innovative platforms and minds that promote and cultivate cultural awareness, understanding and empathy, opening doors to equal access and opportunity in society. Additionally, we believe in supporting programs that develop the emotional well being of our youth so that they are equipped to navigate the everchanging and uncertain world in which we live.
AFF is proud to continue to support Unity Productions Foundation’s work to counter bigotry and create greater understanding between Muslims and people of different faiths and cultures by using the power of narrative media. Over the past decade, AFF has funded UPF’s widely recognized and successful films highlighted below:
- The Emmy-Nominated Sultan and the Saint: A Story of Muslim-Christian Peacemaking. During the
height of the Crusades, a meeting between St. Francis of Assisi and the Sultan of Egypt was followed by a
heroic act of compassion and understanding by both, which turned the tide of history toward peace.
(Jeremy Irons narrates)
-The Great Muslim American Road Trip: A Muslim couple travels historic Route 66 to learn stories of
Muslim builders, bakers and skyscraper makers enriching American culture and life.
- Enemy of the Reich. A quiet, shy girl from a spiritual family named Noor Inayat Khan joins Winston
Churchill's spy network to fight the Nazi's. (Helen Mirren narrates)
- Prince Among Slaves - Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori, a West African Prince, is enslaved in Mississippi
but keeps his faith through his trying life. His mistaken identity leads him to a meeting with the
President of the United States and his life symbolizes the intellectual and spiritual contribution of the
enslaved Africans in America. (Mos Def narrates).
- American Muslims Fact v Fiction – A data-based film that tackles the most common stereotypes about
Muslims and looks at some of the contributions that the community has been made, using data from
Gallup, Pew, and other sources.
- Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World, an exploration the creative contribution of Muslims through
the themes the written word (Quran and calligraphy), space (mosques and architecture), and light (the
marriage of art and technology). Susan Sarandon narrates.
- Lamya's Poem: A Syrian refugee girl in the present meets Rumi, the famous poet, as a young refugee
boy 800 years in the past. They work to fight the demons inside and outside and find a place of hope,
and a new home.