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Ayat in the Open

Ayat in the Open

15 min · Documentary

When a group of young Black Muslims from South Los Angeles trade the city for the mountains, they experience for themselves something their community has always known, that the wilderness belongs to them too.

Directed by Justin Mashouf

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