“The Great Muslim American Road Trip,” a documentary series about a Muslim couple traveling Route 66, will air on PBS-TV later this summer.
The three-part series will be offered on PBS stations, PBS.org and the PBS app, reported Realscreen.com.
The series follows rapper Mona Haydar and her husband Sebastian Robins as they explore the U.S. “Mother Road” and its surrounding Muslim communities on a 2,500-mile drive from Chicago to Los Angeles. The series will see the two learning more about the history of their faith, what it means to be Muslim in the U.S., and about iconic roadside attractions along Route 66.
Visits on the route will include Muhammad Ali’s daughter Maryam Ali in Chicago, Bosnian immigrants and restaurant owners in St. Louis, jazz musician Leon Rollerson in Tulsa, and actor Amir Abdullah in Pasadena.
In case you’re wondering about the Bosnians in St. Louis, about 70,000 refugees from that country were relocated to that region during the 1990s amid their country’s civil war. We lived in the St. Louis region at the time, and the refugees transformed a number of neighborhoods there.
A little digging around the internet, this website shows the filming crew made a stop at Motel Safari in Tucumcari, New Mexico.
(Hat tip to Brian Gregory; iimage of Sebastian Robins and Mona Haydar by Adam McCall via Bullseye Communications)
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