The television show “On the Road in America” will be featured at an “unveiling” at the Center for Strategic and International Studies event this month, as the second season is introduced in America. The “documentary-reality” series shows four young Arabs — Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine are represented — on an American cross country tour, LA to DC by RV in May 2009. A note from the “OnTheRoadInAmerica.tv” Web site:
“To many foreigners, the words Christian, Imperialist, Capitalist, and Racist aptly describe American culture. In the second season, we take a hard look at these phenomena. We do not ignore the clichés but dispel and contextualize them and introduce our cast to the enormous complexity of these issues, and ultimately reveal them to be a part of the much larger and infinitely varied subject that is America today. Apart from episodic themes, the larger story and the one that the viewers will follow is the evolving attitudes of the characters: the people that they meet along the way are in a sense mentors and the events, catalysts in their journey.. ..The diverse cast of the second season will help American viewers better understand and appreciate the mosaic of faiths, geography, cultures and value systems that constitute the ‘Arab world.’”
Through the web site you can find more information about the “cast” and photos and videos from their travels. SUSRIStube.com will provide more details about U.S. airing of the series, as information becomes available.
