بِسْــــــــــــــــــمِ اﷲِالرَّحْمَنِ اارَّحِيم
All-American Muslim is an American reality television program. The program follows the daily lives of five Lebanese-American Shia Muslim families in Dearborn, Michigan, the largest Muslim community in the United States. All-American Muslim premiered on November 13, 2011 on TLC. TLC canceled All-American Muslim after one season, citing low ratings
Each episode follows members of the various families going through the events of their daily lives, with emphasis placed on how their faith affects their actions. Interview segments with individual cast members are interspersed throughout, in which they explain specific points of Islam and how they relate to the various situations. Cast members also appear in short round table segments in which they discuss general principles of Islam as they relate to specific events depicted in the episode.
Amen family: Parents Mohsen and Lila Amen and their adult children Suehaila, Shadia, Bilal and Samira. Shadia has a son, Adam, and in the first episode she marries Jeff McDermott. Samira is married to Ali Fawaz.
Aoude family: Nader and Nawal Aoude have their first child, Naseem, in episode four.
Bazzy-Aliahmad family: Ali and Nina Bazzy-Aliahmad have one son, Andre.
Jaafar family: Mike and Angela Jaafar have four children, Jenna, Julia, Jad and Ryan.
Zaban family: Fouad and Zaynab Zaban have four children, Jamilah, Ayah, Mohamed and Fatima.
TLC ordered All-American Muslim from Shed Media U.S. in July 2011.[5] The initial order was for eight 30-minute episodes.[6] The episode length later expanded to 60 minutes. TLC general manager Amy Winter said, "We wanted to show there was diversity even within the Muslim community. These are families that might have beliefs that are different than yours, but we are all living similar daily lives and hopefully we will bring that to light." Before deciding on Dearborn, TLC considered Muslim communities in San Diego, Washington and Northern Virginia
Critical and popular response
Following a screening at the 2011 Television Critics Association Press Tour, The Hollywood Reporter dubbed All-American Muslim "fascinating". Noting that the participants believed the series was not intended to be educational, THR nonetheless felt that "watching their lives will teach us a lot about the culture of Americans who practice Islam and how they’re both similar and unique from us". In a formal review following the series premiere, THR reiterated its praise. With the caveat that the series might look very different were it focused on Dearborn's more conservative Palestinian or Yemeni enclaves, THR found the series "undeniably authentic and moving" and that viewers would come away with a greater understanding of the Muslim-American community.
The series premiere was viewed by 1.7 million viewers. Ratings dropped for subsequent episodes, with the December 18 episode registering 900,000 viewers. The series has averaged 1 million viewers per episode.
