BelAhdan Impact

For more than 10 years now, a group of forward-looking, truth-seeking Americans and Arab Americans have been working together to produce the Arab-American TV program, Belahdan, on Twin Cities Public TV.  Belahdan is the only TV program in the Midwest states that offers an insightful and personal perspective on Americans of Middle-Eastern origin. It is also a show that encourages cross-cultural dialog produced by “hyphenated” Americans who want to make a difference.

The show airs throughout the state of Minnesota and western Wisconsin, with a high 83% penetration rate. Thousands of highly motivated viewers tune in to our show every week. And public TV viewers have the highest purchasing power and heavily influence community leaders.

We are asking you today to help us to raise awareness of the rich culture of the Middle East and to encourage acceptance of diversity and enrich the cross-cultural dialog. Please become a sponsor of our program today.  Why is becoming a sponsor so important now? Our TV program is embarking on a new era in which we give the Arab American a new voice. We need to bring the community to speak out and define themselves.

Here are our objectives:

1. Bring the Arab-American community into the culture diversity realm.
2. Introduce the Arab-American culture to the American community at large in the context of their American experience.
3. Introduce the diversity and the multiculturalism within the Arab/Muslims American community itself.
4. Introduce the different views of the Arab/Muslims Americans through alternative TV programming.
5. Give the Arab American another voice to represent their own views of current events, events that have an immediate impact on the Arab-American community here in Minnesota.

Thank you!