towelhead slang

Bishil, the poised young star of "Towelhead," has some strong moments here, too, though.

She first came to prominence for her role as Jasira in the 2007 film Towelhead.

He knew they were incredibly smart, absolutely ruthless, and would think nothing of stringing up some towelhead terrorist.

In 2007, he appeared in Towelhead, a feature film written and directed by Ball, who is also his partner.

"Towelhead" was particularly attractive, he says.

The novel has been adapted into a film, Towelhead, by screenwriter and director Alan Ball.

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He expressed similar concerns with "Towelhead," which he said salaciously portrays a young girl's sexual abuse by her uncle.

"Towelhead" is the kind of book that attaches unusual reflectiveness to that particular echo of war.

There isn't a man in "Towelhead" who doesn't somehow fascinate Jasira - not even the father who eventually gives her a black eye.

Q: What made you want to adapt Alicia Erian's novel 'Towelhead' into a film?

Erian's prose sounds convincingly like an adolescent's - in a good way - and "Towelhead" has a darkly comic undertow.

Nasim, who is Persian, not Arabic, responds to an ignorant question with "Why don't you look it up in the towelhead dictionary?"

"Towelhead" nicely captures the rush of sexual stimuli that, especially when coupled with a lack of hard facts, turns an awakening into a fever dream.

A second film, "Towelhead," stars Summer Bishil, an 18-year-old actress portraying a 13-year-old girl who experiences her sexual awakening on screen.

"Towelhead"—An Arab-American teen deals with her sexual awakening amid the Gulf War.

A spokesman for Warner Independent Pictures, which released "Towelhead," said, "Our film deals with a girl's coming of age."

In addition, Ball says "Towelhead" may have sat on a shelf without Eckhart: "His participating got the movie made," he says.

The terms towelhead and raghead are pejorative references to Middle Eastern and Arab headdresses including turbans.