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15Q with Jennifer Taylor
- Director Jennifer Maytorena Taylor By COURTESY LYNNLY LABOVITZ
- DP Jon Shenk with field recordist and composer Chris Strollo outside mosque during Hamza and Rafia's wedding By COURTESY KAUTHAR UMAR
- Hamza and Suliman rapping as M-Team By COURTESY KAUTHAR UMAR
Filmmaker Jennifer M. Taylor started off her career with no formal training and a lot of “common sense.” Now a pro, the director has won an award at the 2009 Aljazeera International
Documentary Film Festival for her most recent work “New Muslim Cool,” which was screened at the Sackler Museum on October 10. In the film, she follows the life of Hamza Pérez, a Puerto
Rican-American rapper and former drug dealer who found his faith in Islam. FM had a chance to hear her dish about music, the FBI raiding mosques after 9/11, and her love for sauerkraut.
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