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 ..
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السينما ومجازر المخيمات
ليس فيلماً عادياً. إنه صادم وقاتل وراعب وخرافي، وأكثر من ذلك يمكن وصف فيلم «مجزرة» لمونيكا بورغمان ولقمان سليم وهيرمان ثييسن. يتحدث الفيلم عن مجزرة صبرا وشاتيلا من زاوية أخرى وهي رواية مرتكبي المجزرة الذين اشترطوا ألا تظهر ملامحهم، والذين اختلطت مشاعرهم وطرائق تعبيرهم وهم يتحدثون عن تفصيلات ما حدث، حتى أن أحدهم قال: «إن الح..
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Filming Revolution: An Interview with Alisa Lebow
[Alisa Lebow, a filmmaker and film scholar who teaches at the University of Sussex, is the Creator/Director/Producer/Writer of Filming Revol..
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The Wanted 18: On Film, Comedy, and Resistance in Palestine: A STATUS/الوضع Conversation between Amer Shomali and Noura Erakat
In this interview, Amer Shomali discusses his film debut The Wanted 18, including the filmmaking process, creative resistance during the first Palestinian Intif..
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Mosireen and the Battle for Political Memory
On 19 February 2014, the Middle East Studies Center at the American University in Cairo hosted Sherief Gaber, a member of the Mosireen film ..
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Nouveau Webdoc: Au centre de Tunis: géographies de l’espace public après une révolution
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..
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New Texts Out Now: Eliane Raheb, Sleepless Nights
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..
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Defying the Apartheid Wall: A Conversation With Palestinian Artist, Filmmaker, & Photographer Khaled Jarrar About His Documentary 'Infiltrators'
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..
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She Who Tells a Story: Interview with the Photography Collective Rawiya
[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),