As part of Safar: The Festival of Popular Arab Cinema, we brought back The Forum! This time, we put it on a Saturday and it was a great success.

There were three panel discussions, each dealing with a different subject matter and the video below covers session one:

THE NOTION OF THE POPULAR: LOOKING AT GENRE

Speakers:

Dr Malek Khouri, Professor of Film Studies at The American University in Cairo and author of The Arab National Project in Youssef Chahine’s Cinema (2010)

In conversation with Dr Zahera Harb, Journalist, Senior Lecturer in International Journalism at City University, London and author of Channels of Resistance: Liberation, Propaganda, Hezbollah and the Media (I. B. Tauris: 2011)

Safar Forum Session 1 | The Notion of the Popular: Looking at Genre from The Arab British Centre on Vimeo.