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MX Meets Fuad Sarruf

"The dean, who was aware that Malcolm was a controversial celebrity, told him to meet with the Vice President, Professor Fuad Sarruf, yet another Lebanese Christian. The Vice President said he would speak to the American President of the University. The answer from the President came back very quickly: since the University was on American soil, Malcolm, who was deemed an enemy of America, could not speak on campus."

Professor Malik Badri remembers Malcolm’s visit to Beirut in this way:

“One afternoon in 1965 the phone in my flat rang. It was the deep golden American voice that I had known in the Sudan. “This is Malik El-Shabazz” the voice said. “You mean, Brother Malcolm X?” I asked in an excited voice. “This is he,” he answered. He told me that he did not like Beirut and that he changed his flight route only to visit me. After eating and relaxing in my house, I urged him to speak in the American University. He reluctantly agreed.”

FBI arrests Malcolm X grandson en route to Iran

Muslim civil activist Malcolm Shabazz was reportedly arrested before starting his scheduled visit to Tehran to attend a conference on Hollywoodism, sources outside the United States confirmed on Monday.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has refused to provide any information about his whereabouts.

Tehran hosted the third Hollywoodism International Conference, on the sidelines of the 31st Fajr International Film Festival in the Iranian capital Tehran on Sunday.

Many filmmakers, directors, actors, and movie critics as well as politicians and economists took part in the conference.

Mike Gravel, a former US Senator who attended the conference, condemned Hollywood’s role in imposing imperialistic views on the people of the world.

“Hollywood is just a tool of the American government and European governments to pursue their imperialistic views whether it is in economy...culture…or religion,” Gravel stated.

The first Hollywoodism and Cinema Conference was held in Iran in 2011.