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Description: AL-BASIR is Arabic for 'The All-Seeing' and is one of the ninety-nine names of Allah. An Arab civil rights lawyer who defends Muslims against racial profiling is under government surveillance. His personal and religious life is examined through the lens of this surveillance as he lives as a gay man in New York City, struggling to reconcile his homosexual identity with the traditional Islamic and Middle Eastern culture he is from.nnAL-BASIR was featured on Al-Jazeera America as part of a story on
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