ReFocus: The Films of Annemarie Jacir

Iqra Shagufta Cheema is an Assistant Professor in Humanities at Graceland University, Iowa. Stefanie Van de Peer is Reader in Film & Media at Queen Margaret University. She has published Negotiating Dissidence (EUP 2017), Women in African Cinema (Routledge 2020) and ReFocus: The Films of Annemarie Jacir (EUP 2023). She has also edited several edited collections on diverse topics including Jocelyne Saab’s work, Arab Stardom and Global Feminist Film Archives. She sits on the Executive Committee of the British Association of Film, TV and Screen Studies, is series editor for EUP’s ReFocus: The International Directors series, and is associate editor for the journal Studies in World Cinema.

Cheema and Van de Peer expertly illuminate Annemarie Jacir’s engagement with the complexity of the Palestinian experience as it traverses questions of memory, space and the transnational. The book pays homage to Jacir’s cinematic contribution as film editor, writer, producer and facilitator and perceptively traces the struggles and pleasures involved in the creation of a committed and aesthetically ambitious Palestinian cinema.

• Preface: Annemarie Jacir’s Transnational Oeuvre - Iqra Shagufta Cheema1. Experimenting with Realities in Jacir’s Short Films - Stefanie Van de Peer2. Heterotopias and Thirdspaces: Construction of Space in Jacir’s Films - Iqra Shagufta Cheema3. Locations of Memory: Home and Homeland - Iqra Shagufta Cheema4. Transvergent Transnationalism: Borders, Homes, and Humans - Iqra Shagufta Cheema5. Characters at the Margins or Minor Characters - Iqra Shagufta Cheema6. Curatorial Politics and Practices - Stefanie Van de Peer7. An Interview with Annemarie JacirIndex