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Vacationers stranded on a cannibal infested island.

A lifetime of traveling in brown skin and with a Muslim name have taught Riz Ahmed to expect the indignity of being racially profiled. At borders and airports, immigration officers see a potential terrorist where there's an actor. For years, casting directors did much the same, typecasting him as a jihadi or a cab driver or some other racial stereotype. The Pakistani-British actor and rapper detailed, and connected, those experiences in a recent essay, published on The Guardian and excerpted from a forthcoming anthology. This sort of sociopolitical reflection through the lens of identity exists in much of Riz's work elsewhere. It's a significant thread in the music he makes with Himanshu Suri, b.k.a. Heems, as the rap duo Swet Shop Boys. "T5," a recent single from their forthcoming Cashmere LP, is a pulsing meditation on airports as centers of socially sanctioned racism. The video for the song, premiering here today and produced by The FADER, puts Riz and Heems at the mercy of TSA and border control officers at JFK's Terminal 5. In the clip, Riz and Heems play semi-autobiographical versions of themselves, with parallel experiences ending in different fates. And the message is right on time, coinciding with intense anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy in their home countries - Brexit in the U.K., and the ever-creeping threat of a Trump presidency in the U.S.

Anik Khan, the Bangladesh-born, Queens, NY-raised hip-hop artist, captures the immigrant experience with rare poetic flare and incisive depth, with a whole masala of influences at his fingertips.

Local interpreters were key to the US war effort, but now many face danger in their countries because of their affiliation. This is the story of how they are rebuilding their lives, told through a chain-smoking Iraqi codenamed "Phillip Morris" who was able to make it to the US with the help of an American soldier he befriended during his deployment, an Afghan called Malik who is still working as an active interpreter at the US base in Kabul despite threats to his life, and another Afghan named Mujtaba who fled with his family as refugees to Turkey.

Follows three Muslim women activists who have come of age since 9/11.

Detectives John McHeat and Douglas Rawthorne face off against the corrupt political machine headed by Mayor Barnabie and his thugs.

The life and times of infomercial legend Matthew Lesko --- better known as the question mark man.

After a man buries his dog out in the woods, he stumbles across three transients at a campfire and reveals to them a horrible, deep secret.

Based on Pakistani-American filmmaker Nausheen Dadabhoy's lyrical portrait of the last 20 years of Muslim life in America as told through the lens of Muslims living in the United States.

Through the story of journalist Steven Sotloff, taken hostage by ISIS in 2013, Sealed InBlood looks at the origins of the American no negotiation policy that made his tragic murder a foregone conclusion, while many of the Europeans captives went home.

Thousands of local interpreters who helped U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan seek safety in the aftermath of war.