Safar: A Journey Through Popular Arab Cinema kicks off with a discussion forum with internationally renowned experts, industry figures and academics. Session: ARAB CINEMA — ACADEMIC PERSPECTIVES Speakers: Dr Viola Shafik, freelance filmmaker, curator and the author of Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity (1999) and Popular Egyptian Cinema: Gender, Class and Nation (2007) in […]
Safar: A Journey Through Popular Arab Cinema kicks off with a discussion forum with internationally renowned experts, industry figures and academics. Session: ARAB CINEMA IN THE UK — THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE Speakers: Jason Wood, Director of Programming for the Curzon Cinema Group Mona Deeley, Founding Director of Zenith Foundation Ali Jaafar, Executive Director […]
By Malu Halasa Safar's Writer in Residence In the 1993 film, Terrorism and the Kebab, building and architecture are more than just backdrops. T...
By Malu Halasa, Safar’s Writer in Residence Through the artful cinematography of Reinhardt Peschke, Amman appears as one of the great cities o...
By Malu Halasa, Safar’s Writer in Residence After a 15-year-long civil war, one way Lebanese artists reflected on the experience was the use o...
Safar: A Journey Through Popular Arab Cinema (21-27 September 2012) kicks off with a discussion forum with internationally renowned experts, industry figures and academics. Session: ARAB CINEMA — IN PRACTICE Speakers: Hussein Fahmy, Egyptian screen icon and star of Watch Out for Zouzou (1971) Philippe Aractingi, Lebanese film director of Bosta (2005) and Under the […]
By Malu Halasa, Safar’s Writer in Residence Just like today’s pressures on young men and women in the Middle East to conform to an accep...
By Malu Halasa, Safar’s Writer in Residence Alexandra, Why? (Iskanderiya... leh?) won the Silver Bear Special Jury Prize at the 1978 Berlin Fi...
By Malu Halasa, Safar’s Writer in Residence Few Arab musicals have ever attempted to tread the ground of Bosta, a film about the aftermath of ...
By Malu Halasa, Safar’s Writer in Residence These nine Middle Eastern feature films, from 1960 to 2010, have come to represent pivotal transit...