Gaza on Screen grew out of a film festival that I was invited to curate for Columbia University’s Center for Palestine Studies in 2019. The book developed from the extensive research I conducted for the festival.
Nadia Yaqub
Nadia Yaqub is a professor of Arab culture in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research has focused on Arab cultural texts ranging from medieval literature and contemporary oral poetry to modern prose fiction and visual culture. Her recent publications include Bad Girls of the Arab World (University of Texas Press, 2017), a volume of essays co-edited with Rula Quawas, Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution (University of Texas Press, 2018), a monograph about Palestinian cinema of the long 1970s, and Gaza on Screen (Duke University Press, 2023), an edited volume about film and media from and about the Gaza Strip.