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After several years working and teaching in France, I felt, in the United States, more encouraged to develop an active research agenda focused on North African literature and cinema through a decolonial perspective. While acknowledging the legacies and traumas ..

This book was conceived at a workshop called “Russia and the Arab World: History, Literature, Arts” convened by Margaret Litvin at Boston University in February 2017. At the time this area of study was not well developed.

About Baghdad is the first film made about Iraq after the fall of the Ba’ath regime in July 2003. It won the “Best Documentary” prize at the Big Apple Film Festival Award in New York in 2004. It is perhaps the first effort to privilege the voices of the Iraqi people, from all walks of l..

About Baghdad is the first film made about Iraq after the fall of the Ba’ath regime in July 2003. It won the “Best Documentary” prize at the Big Apple Film Festival Award in New York in 2004. It is perhaps the first effort to privilege the voices of the Iraqi people, from all walks of l..

In this interview, artist and filmmaker, Dima Yassin, discusses her long overdue visit to Iraq at the height of the country's revolution. She reflects on the sociopolitical transformations happening in the country, the role that women play in the uprising, and her new film shot from Baghdad's re..

The Event is sponsored by Film and Video Studies, Film and Media Studies, Middle East and Islamic Studies, Ali Vural Ak Center, Global Affairs and Global Programs, Cultural Studies, DKA at GMU, University Life, and Women and Gender Studies.

March 30, 2016 // BBC Arabic invites film and documentary-makers to submit works to the 3

[Alisa Lebow, a filmmaker and film scholar who teaches at the University of Sussex, is the Creator/Director/Producer/Writer of Filming Revol..

This interview was conducted following the national airing of 1913: Seeds of Conflict on PBS in the United States. 1913 is an hour-long, educational documentary based on the book 1913 Jerusalem by Amy Dockser Marcus. The film explores the social and cultural climate of Pales..

Open Bethlehem. Directed by Leila Sansour. Palestine, 2014

Towards the end of her new documentary Open Bethleh..

In this interview, Amer Shomali discusses his film debut The Wanted 18, including the filmmaking process, creative resistance during the first Palestinian Intif..

Following a successful first film and documentary festival in 2014, BBC Arabic announced its call for entries for its second festival, bringing films and documentaries about the Arab world to audiences in London.

The BBC Arabi..

The following trailer is for Laura Poitras` Citizefour, which is scheduled for release on 24 October 2014.
 

[The text below is based on a workshop organized by Sonja Mejcher-Atassi at the American University of Beirut, 11 April 2014, with the generous support of the Arts and Humanities Initiative and the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies at AUB and the School of English’..

On this edition of Media on the Margins, Malihe Razazan speaks with Syrian-born Frontline correspondent Muhammad Ali about his most recent reporting trip from the town of al-Atārib near Aleppo in northern Syria, which is the subject of his

On 19 February 2014, the Middle East Studies Center at the American University in Cairo hosted Sherief Gaber, a member of the Mosireen film ..

Un nouveau web-documentaire intitulé Au centre de Tunis: Géographies de l’espace public après une révolution est paru sur le net. Il s’agit d’une recherche universitaire réalisée par des géographes de l’Université de Cagliari (Italie), du Politecni..

Eliane Raheb, director. Sleepless Nights [Layali Bala Noom]. Itar Productions, 2012.

Jadaliyya (J): What made you create this film?

Eliane Raheb (ER): The idea of executing the Sleep..

The Square. Directed by Jehane Noujaim. Egypt/USA, 2013.

The Egyptian revolution has been hiccupping from crackdown to revolt. Meanwhile, it has collapsed from a climate of feverish utopia into violent party altercations often waged according to foreign interests. In a..

Palestinian visual artist Khaled Jarrar’s award-winning documentary film, Infiltrators, documents how Palestinians defy Israel’s twenty-six-foot apartheid wall by jumping over the wall or going through underground tunnels. Thousands of Palestin..

Call for Stories: Independent Documentary Searching for Love Stories from Pre-1948 Palestine

I am presently conducting research for a new documentary film. The film is a journey in search of love stories set against the tumultuous changes of early twentieth-century Palestine. I..

[Rawiya is a collective of photographers from the Middle East, which is garnering accolades and attention internationally. The members are Myriam Abdelaziz (Egypt/France, based in NY/Cairo),