 Alleging a political agenda, he says out of 1000 films that have Arab and Muslim characters (from the year 1896 to 2000), 12 were positive depictions, 52 were neutral portrayals of Arabs, and 936 were negative.Although the negative imagery of Arabs and the Arab world in the film is a hundred years old, Shaheen also voices optimism about the future.Showing some examples of films that portray Arabs as ordinary people, he expects the negative images to change, due to the works of a new generation of filmmakers, who see things differently.