Authors

Christa Salamandra

 
Christa Salamandra is Visiting Professor at The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, Sweden, and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York. She is the author of A New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria (Indiana University Press, 2004), and numerous articles on visual media and urban culture in the Arab world. She is currently writing a book-length ethnography of Syrian television drama production. For more information, visit: http://www.christasalamandra.net/.   

ARTICLES BY Christa Salamandra

  • فهد سوريا - الجزء الثاني

    فهد سوريا - الجزء الثاني


    تدهورت علاقة المالح مع السلطات السورية بعد فيلمه شظايا، والذي يعتبره مخرجه نهاية مرحلة في حياته المهنية. حدث أمر محوري في عيد ميلاده في سبتمبر 1981. إذ فيما كان المخرج يقود سيارته بالقرب من وزارة..

  • فهد سوريا - الجزء الأول

    فهد سوريا - الجزء الأول


    يُجّسد المُخرِج السوري نبيل المالح شخصية الفنان الناشط، المُنِتج الثقافيّ المُلتزم اجتماعياً والناشط سياسياً. تحدّى المالح بأعماله، على مدى عقود من إنتاج أنماط فنية مختلفة، الأنظمة الفنية والثقافية والسياسية. غالباً ما يستشهد المالح بلحظة حاسمة من الطفولة المقاومة: يُواجِه الطفل نبيل, البال..

  • Syria’s Leopard (Part 2)

    Syria’s Leopard (Part 2)

    Maleh`s relationship with the Syrian authorities deteriorated after Fragments, which the dire..

  • Syria’s Leopard (Part 1)

    Syria’s Leopard (Part 1)

    Syrian filmmaker Nabil Maleh epitomizes the figure of the artist-activist, the socially committed and politically engaged cultural producer. Over decades of production and across genres, his work has challenged artistic, cultural, and political regimes. Maleh often cites a defining moment ..

  • Reflections on Not Writing about the Syrian Conflict

    Reflections on Not Writing about the Syrian Conflict

    Friends and colleagues often ask if I am busy responding to Syria’s three-year revolution-turned-civil war, given that I have spent much of my career researching and writing about social and cultural life in Damascus. I reply with guilt-tinged evasion. This “expert’s” reluctance to intervene mys..

  • Prelude to an Uprising: Syrian Fictional Television and Socio-Political Critique

    Prelude to an Uprising: Syrian Fictional Television and Socio-Political Critique

    As antigovernment protests gripped Syria in 2011 and 2012, observers celebrate a new generation of activist artists and their innovative forms of creative dissent. The wall of fear that had long curtailed artistic expression has collapsed, they argue, with youthful satirists moving beyond the de..