The Feeling of Being Watched offers insight into FBI surveillance of a Muslim community in the suburb of Bridgeview, Illinois pre-9/11, and filmmaker Assia Boundaoui’s effort to expose the targeting of her community. It will be of special interest to people who want to explore the following topics:

• counter-surveillance
• criminal justice
• democracy
• immigration
• Islam
• Islamophobia
• judicial system
• Federal Bureau of Investigation
• FBI
• Freedom of Information Act
• Michel Foucault
• Muslim identity
• Muslim culture
• national security
• Operation Vulgar Betrayal
• religious discrimination
• religious liberty
• panopticon prison
• personal data
• stereotyping
• surveillance
• xenophobia