Issue 43.2 (Fall 2002)


Middle-Eastern Media Arts

Editorial by Guest Editor Dorit Naaman

Hamid Naficy Making Films with an Accent: Iranian émigré Cinema

Walid Ra’ad I Have Already Been in the Lake of Fire

Azza El-Hassan When the Exiled Films Home

Haim Bresheeth A Symphony of Absence: Borders and liminality in Elia Suleiman’s Chronicle of a Disappearance

Jayce Salloum Interview by Molly Hankwitz

Viola Shafik Class Difference and Subjectivity: Two Egyptian Documentaries

Kevin Dwyer ‘Hidden, Unsaid, Taboo’ In Moroccan Cinema: Abdelkader Lagtaa’s Challenge To Authority

Yosefa Loshitzky A Tale of Three Cities: Amos Gitai’s Urban Trilogy

Tarek Elhaik Solitude and Fragments: Introducing the Video Work of Mounir Fatmi

Livia Alexander Let Me In, Let Me Out, Going Places and Going Back

James Longley Interview by Jane Adas

Akram Zaatari This Day

Yesim Ustaoglu Interview by Valentina Vitali-West

Deniz Göktürk Anyone at Home? Itinerant Identities in European Cinema of the 1990s

REVIEWS

Books

Film festivals

This issue emerges from the conference: Unmasking the Veil: Middle Eastern Media Arts, March 31-April 1 2000, at the University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

Speakers

Hamid Naficy "Gender, Sexuality, and Veiling in Iranian cinema." Ella Shohat "National cinema as a framework of analysis and film Historiography." Jenine Abboushi Dallal " Collaboration and Other Southern Questions: Filming South Lebanon." Haim Bresheeth "Ostura- The story of Palestine: Exile and Homecoming." Livia Alexander "Maps of Exile and Return in Israeli and Palestinian Cinema." Dorit Naaman "Voice/Image and Subjectivity in Postcolonial Documentary." Paul Willemen "Questions of Subjectivity in Gitai's Feature Films." Yosefa Loshitzky "A Tale of Three Cities: Amos Gitai's Trilogy" Viola Shafik "The Shelved Cinema: Independent film making in Egypt." Martin Stollery "Creative Understanding Across Contact Zones: Contemporary Tunisian Cinema." Ahmed El Attar "Independent Performing and Media Arts in Egypt at the Turn of the Millennium and the Duality of Existence." Ivan El Azm Alternative Syrian Cinema Norma Claire Moruzzi "Feminism, Content and Conventional Aesthetics in Contemporary Iranian Cinema."

Media Artists

Amos Gitai "The Middle East Conflict and Filmic Representation." Walid Ra'ad visual essay "I have already been in the lake of fire." Azza El Hassan "Place and Land in Palestinian Cinema." Sobhi Zobaidi "Space and Identity in Palestinian Cinema."

Interviews

Jayce Salloum and Molly Hankwitz on Jayce Salloum's work (Lebanon) Valentina Vitalli with Yesim Ustagulu (Turkey) Azadeh Farahmand, w/Mitra Tabarizian (Iran/Europe) Kevin Dwyer w/ Moroccan filmmakers James Longely by Jane Adas