I began this book out of a sense of urgency at how much we do not yet know about cinema in the Maghrib and Arab worlds, and a desire to tell more complicated stories about its histories. Most immediately, I met Smihi when I helped program the San Francisco Arab..
Peter Limbrick
Peter Limbrick is Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz (USA). He is the author of Arab Modernism as World Cinema: The Films of Moumen Smihi (2020) and Making Settler Cinemas: Film and Colonial Encounters in the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand (2010) and has published on postcolonial and transnational cinemas in Framework, Third Text, Camera Obscura, and other journals. In 2013, he curated a major retrospective of Smihi's work that has screened at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, Block Cinema, in Chicago, and Tate Modern, in London.