... a fellow of the Center for Behavioral Research at the American University of Beirut. Still from Hadel Nazmy’s open studio project, “Personal Diary in Desolate Town,” at Cairo’s Townhouse Gallery in 2002. Courtesy Hadel Nazmy What Is That and between Arab Women and Video? The...

...Raz Yosef This article explores the relationship between trauma, gender, and ethnicity in the Israeli film Or, My Treasure (dir. Keren Yedaya, Israel/France, 2004). The film presents a few routine days in the life of Ruthie, a Mizrahi (Jews from Arab countries) prostitute, and her daughter, Or. I...

...Linda Williams This essay's point of departure is the question of how images of death and torture are literally and metaphorically framed by the people who take them and how they are further received by the publics who see them. Beginning with a comparison of two digital headshots of an Arab enemy...

... and journalism about the colonization of the Arab-Islamic world, European law is typically referred to as “civil law,” and the replacement of Shari’a (Islamic) law by “civil” law is almost always assumed (by Euramerican writers) to be a positive social reform, especially for women.’ In...

.... In broken Arabic — abridged. In ill-­ timed guttural bursts. It was a toddler’s vernacular. “Yes I did carry rocks with me,” I whispered. “From the Promised Land.” “For my mother.” “I picked them myself.” “Does that mean I am a terrorist?” As the words left my mouth I speculated whether I...

... by the Arab Spring provided a charged context in which to consider work by queer and women Palestinian artists in close relation to transformational politics and social movements. Several signi cant developments in queer and feminist Pal- estinian and solidarity activism made this event...

... (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool; visiting curator at Cornerhouse, Manchester; and associate curator at the Arab British Centre, London. He is the founding director of the Arab Film Festival (UK) and is an editor of the Beiruti bilingual cultural magazine, Portal 9 . He recently...

... film’s production and reception in the late 1920s and into the stories still regularly told about Layla to this day. Not only is Amı¯r consistently eulogized in both general and historically particular Arab cinema scholarship but her position as a woman has in no way been dismissively...

... of the recent popularity of banlieue films and what is often called the beur cinema of French-Arab filmmakers, ironi- cally French-Arab directors often dissociate themselves from the idea of a beur cinema by arguing that this label risks marginaliz...

... unparalleled in Persian or English grammar, speaks to Arabic grammatical structures. It appears that on the occasions in which past and pre- sent are constituted in confluence with one another, the shot sequences become...

..., with other emerging female video art- ists of the Arab world.4 This affinity offers an interesting prospect for feminist theorists of nationalism, who have frequently urged attention to the patriarchal structures of nationhood and have campaigned for gender reform as a central concern...

... Morocco and abroad when it was released. Yet more than twenty years later, it remains in European and North American distribution and has become a mainstay in film festivals and classes devoted to women in the Arab or Islamic worlds and to international and transnational feminisms. A recent...

... affect. She has authored numerous articles and is working on a manuscript titled “Anticipatory Governance, Queer Difference and the Post-oil Generation in the United Arab Emirates.” © 2011 by Camera Obscura 2011 Figure 1. Pantene 1 (2004) by Procter & Gamble Middle East Shampoo: Editing...

... horrible fear of terrorists hiding among us, are invoked and con- firmed by 24: for example, the nice, middle-class, Arab American family who lives across the street in that suburban housing develop- ment in Southern California is, in fact, a group of terrorists hiding in plain sight, as shown in...

... hero, in films such as Cecil B. DeMille’s The Cheat (US, 1915), his perfor- mance clearly conveys the threatening sexuality of the exotic man present in screen depictions of Arab characters in the teens and twenties. Hayakawa’s Japanese roles and those of contemporary Arab characters also show...

..., class, nation, and so on. The frst person we are introduced to in the camp is Marichka (Oana Pellea), a native informant who is referred to ear- lier as “Arab, gypsy, something” and who speaks an unidentifable language. As an informant she seems only native to the Bexhill camp itself, knowing...

... his sweeping generalizations about gay rights, the Arab world, Israel, Islam, and homophobia don’t even start to capture the complexity and nuance of what’s going on. There are other outstanding questions: Why were no Palestinians included? Why only state- sponsored features, when shorts...

... collections that are really nuanced in their breadth. We had collections like “New Directions” and “Punto de Vista: Latina.” Now I think we have one of the most important collections by and about Muslim and Arab women. Post-­ 9/11 we made the films available for free to anyone who wanted to use them...

... commonly used in the Arab world. As El Saadawi herself says, “Feminism to us is a very English word. We call it women’s liberation [tahrir al-ma’rah] because we don’t have feminism in Arabic. Women’s liberation means the liberation from class and patriarchal oppression.12 As El Saadawi...

... an oasis, they said. I do not know. I cannot find it on my map.” These, the exotically accented words of an Arab woman (so identified in Fagin’s scenario) who has removed the purple veil covering her face. Standing behind the green rope of the museum, she muses in a...