The Sheik and I is a 2012 English-language Documentary Comedy motion picture. The sheik and i features Caveh Zahedi, Beckett Zahedi, Michael Patten, Zuzu Snyder, Rasha, Haig and Colin Nusbaum. The Sheik and I was made on a budget of $25 million and at the box office it grossed only $11 million. When an American filmmaker is commissioned to make a film for a Middle East Biennial on the theme of 'art as a subversive act,' his film is banned for blasphemy, he is asked to destroy every copy, and threatened with arrest.