Sa'ed Atshan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Emory University, USA. He is the author of Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (2020) and coauthor of The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians (2020). Katharina Galor is the Hirschfeld Senior Lecturer in Judaic Studies at Brown University, USA. She is the coauthor of The Archeology of Jerusalem: From the Origins through the Ottomans (2013) and The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians (2020) and the author of Finding Jerusalem: Archaeology between Science and Ideology (2017).

A double lens on Israeli and Palestinian film, 2 distinctive yet enmeshed sets of films addressing contemporary connundra of gender, sexuality, and identity in a desperate, yet vital world inhabited so differently by both, yet with similar anxieties and to a degree, aspirations. The book begins with a superb introduction by the pair of editors, one Israeli the other Palestinian, and is followed by trenchant and interesting studies by top scholars. This book is a must for anyone wishing to decipher the complex double reality of Israel/Palestine.

• Introduction: Film and the Gender LensKatharina Galor (Brown University, USA) and Sa'ed Atshan (Emory University, USA) Part I: Feminist Perspectives1. The Religious Feminism of Rama Burshtein's RomancesKaren E. H. Skinazi (University of Bristol, UK)2. Silence…No More…: Palestinian Cinema of TransgressionLema M. Salem (Independent Scholar, Germany)3. Families on the Edge: Interstitial Relations in Recent Palestinian Women's CinemaAnna Ball (Nottingham Trent University, UK) Part II: Approaching Masculinities 4. Disappearances and Remains: Masculinity in the Cinema of Elia SuleimanKamran Rastegar (Tufts University, USA)5. “Queer As Can Be”: On Masculinity in Jumana Manna's Blessed, Blessed OblivionGil Hochberg (Columbia University, USA) Part III: Israeli-Palestinian Intersections6. Our African Palestine: Intersectional Specters in the House of ZionGreg Burris (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)7. Write Down, I Am a WomanShai Ginsburg (Duke University, USA)8. Identity (Ex)Changes, Gender, and Family Ties: Cinematic Representations of Israeli Jews and PalestiniansYael Zerubavel (Rutgers University, USA)FilmographyFigures Index