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I've been reading Margaret Farrell's excellent dissertation ("Aspects of Adaptation in the Egyptian Singing Film", CUNY 2...

There is the 1983 documentary that Philip Schuyler worked on, Master Musicians of Jahjouka . (And please see Schuyler's astute article...

I follow Grey Filastine on Facebook, and he turned me onto this amazing website, Radiooooo.com . It works like this: you see a map of the g...

UCLA Prof Gil Hochberg's book, Visual Occupations: Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone , is out soon (May 2015) from Duke Univers...

by Waref Abu Quba. it will only take 4 minutes of your time. a four-minute short that merely shows a slice of life in the city. It captur...

Back in March I posted about the film Traitors , which deals with Moroccan women punkers. (And which I have not yet seen. I've since ca...

Actresses Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin and Liv LeMoyne (in kufiya). Credit: Magnolia Pictures ...

Traitors (dir. Sean Gullette) has been on the festival circuit for a couple years. It looks, based on the reviews and the available trai...

Psychosis 2010 , a photo by tsweden on Flickr. This lame British horror film opens with a group of anarchist squatters who, in 1992, are...

Iqbal Singh does Elvis. "A Beautiful Baby of Broadway," from the 1960 Hindi film, Ek Phool Char Kaante .

  Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times From today's New York Times (July 22, 2012), a review of first-time director Alison Klayman...

Targeted Citizen - English from Adalah on Vimeo . You really must see this film from Rachel Leah Jones and Adalah-The Legal Center for Min...

Someone who follows this blog wrote to me awhile back and said to look for kufiyas in the Israeli film Kazablan (sometimes spelled, Casabla...

From Middle East Report Online, Ursala Lindsey's review of Waltz with Bashir ("Shooting Film and Crying"). There is a ...

Asked for his own impressions of these films and the period they capture, Mr. [Andrew] Lampert, 31, hesitated, then said: “I recently watche...

Allah yarhamu . Egypt's great filmmaker, Youssef Chahine, passed away this morning in Cairo, at the age of 82. I was no great fan of mo...

I recently watched Performance (1970) again. I first saw it when I lived in Beirut, shortly after it was released. Given the fact that ther...

I attended the Middle East Studies Association meetings, November 18-21, in Boston, where I presented a paper on Youssef Chahine's class...