“Essential for libraries and useful for individual readers who will find essays on subjects rarely treated in English.” Kevin Dwyer, American University in Cairo “Constitutes a ‘counter-reading’ of received views and assumptions about the absence of Arab cinema in the Middle East.” Michael T. Martin, Black Film Archive, Indiana University

Roy Armes is Professor Emeritus of Film at Middlesex University. He has published widely on world cinema and is author of Dictionary of African Filmmakers (IUP, 2008).