I first encountered the work of Nadim Mishlawi in the basement of a Beirut bistro. It was April 2017, anda former student had invited me to a special screening of a documentary called
Greg Burris and Nadim Mishlawi
Nadim Mishlawi is a filmmaker, composer, and co-founder of DB Studios, an audio post-production and music production facility based in Beirut. Mishlawi’s first documentary film, Sector Zero, won the Muhr Arab Award at the Dubai International Film Festival in 2011 and the Berlin Art Prize for Film Media Arts in 2013. His latest film, After the End of the World, is debuting at Sheffield DocFest in June 2022. In addition to his films, Mishlawi has also published essays in The New Soundtrack, and he teaches courses at the Lebanese Academy of the Arts and the American University of Beirut.
Greg Burris teaches film and media studies at the American University of Beirut. He is the author of The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media, and the Radical Imagination (Temple University, 2019).