Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator Under Fire From Arab Americans

“I have not seen the film, but based on the trailer and interviews that I have seen him do in character, it really seems to be that it’s perpetuating a negative stereotype against Arabs and therefore Arab Americans,” Tonova tells E! News. “And I feel it’s harmful to the discourse, especially these days when we are seeing the number of profiling incidents here in the U.S. against Arab Americans.”