Ten Arab Filmmakers

Josef Gugler is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of African Film: Re-Imagining a Continent (IUP, 2003) and editor of Film in the Middle East and North Africa: Creative Dissidence.

Ten Arab Filmmakers contributes in a positive, meaningful way to the general advancement of MENA studies in American institutions of higher education, encouraging students and the general public to learn about the Arab world from diverse perspectives.(Journal of North African Studies) Gugler has done an admirable job taking the reader on a complex but passionate journey through the work of ten Arab fi lmmakers.(Black Camera) Illustrated with arresting stills and superbly edited, this volume is sharp, incisive, and thought provoking. . . . Essential.(Choice) Ten Arab Filmmakers represents a timely and important resource for educators, scholars, and students.(Studies in Eastern European Cinema)

• Introduction: Auteur Directors, Political Dissent, and Social Critique Josef Gugler1. Nabil Maleh: Syria's Leopard (Syria) Christa Salamandra2. Jocelyne Saab: A Lifetime Journey in Search of Freedom and Beauty (Lebanon) Dalia Said Mostafa3. Michel Khleifi: Filmmaker of Memory (Palestine) Tim Kennedy4. Elia Suleiman: Narrating Negative Space (Palestine) Refqa Abu-Remaileh5. Youssef Chahine: Devouring Mimicries or Juggling with Self and Other (Egypt) Viola Shafik6. Daoud Abd El-Sayed: Parody and Borderline Existence (Egypt) Viola Shafik7. Yousry Nasrallah: The Pursuit of Autonomy in the Arab and European Film Markets (Egypt) Benjamin Geer8. Mohamed Chouikh: From Anti-colonial Commemoration to a Cinema of Contestation (Algeria) Guy Austin9. Merzak Allouache: (Self-)Censorship, Social Critique and the Limits of Political Engagement in Contemporary Algerian Cinema (Algeria) Will Higbee10. Nabil Ayouch: Transgression, Identity, and Difference (Morocco) Jonathan SmolinFilm IndexName Index