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Malihe Razazan
Crossroads in Iranian Cinema: Interview with Hamid Naficy
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Hamid Naficy of Northwestern University is a leading authority of Iranian cinema His most recent four-volume series, A Social History of Iranian Cinema. Covers the Iranian cinema from late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first cinema. Hamid Naficy has published extensively about theories of exile and displacement, exilic and diaspora cinema and media, and Iranian and Third World cinemas. His many publications include such well-known titles as An Accented Cinema, The ...
Keep Reading »Marcel Khalife: An Interview
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Marcel Khalife is one of the Arab world's most revered and celebrated cultural icons. Composer, singer, and oud player, he is best known as the musical voice of students, intellectuals, laborers, and all those committed to social justice, freedom, and human dignity. His arrangements, especially those inspired by the poems of Mahmud Darwish and performed by his band, the Mayadine Ensemble founded in 1976, became part of the daily cultural life of two generations. ...
Keep Reading »"A Separation" Buried Under the Dust of Politics
A Separation, Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar winning film, gave Iranians a reason to come together and celebrate this moment, which could have potentially taken the focus away from war and nuclear program. The media on both sides, however, missed the moment. On Sunday, 26 February, Asghar Farhadi began his acceptance speech by greeting “the good people of my homeland” and saying: “Many Iranians all over the world are watching us and I imagine them to be very happy. They are ...
Keep Reading »An Interview With Paul Sedra: Another Victim of the Egyptian Junta - I'Institut d'Egypte
![[Egyptians collect burnt manuscripts from the destroyed Institute of Egypt in central Cairo on December 19, 2011. Photo credit: AFP.]](/content_images/3/sm_Instituteofegypt.jpg "[Egyptians collect burnt manuscripts from the destroyed Institute of Egypt in central Cairo on December 19, 2011. Photo credit: AFP.]")
One Egyptian news paper wrote “Many Egyptians pass this building every day on their way to work and they take great pride in it. And on Saturday, December 17th that very special building, The Institut d'Égypte became the latest causality of the ongoing military attack on the revolutionary protesters. Malihe Razazan spoke with professor Paul Sedra about the significance The Institut d'Égypte, one of the finest cultural hertiage buildings in the world On ...
Keep Reading »Bio
Malihe Razazan is producer and cohost of KPFA Radio in Berkeley. She is also a producer and guest host of Your Call, a daily public affairs program on KALW, local public radio station in San Francisco. Malihe is a Contributing Editor for Jadaliyya's On Media and Reporting page
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