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What Is That and between Arab Women and Video? The Case of Beirut
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 41–69.
Published: 01 December 2003
... was 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 Case...
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Recycled Wounds: Trauma, Gender, and Ethnicity in Keren Yedaya's Or, My Treasure
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 41–71.
Published: 01 December 2009
...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...
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Cluster Fuck: The Forcible Frame in Errol Morris's Standard Operating Procedure
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 29–67.
Published: 01 May 2010
...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...
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Saving Other Women from Other Men: Disneys Aladdin
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (1 (31)): 4–25.
Published: 01 May 1993
... 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...
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“I Have One Daughter and That Is Egyptian Cinema”: `Azīza Amīr amid the Histories and Geographies of National Allegory
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 137–177.
Published: 01 May 2007
... 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 sidelined...
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Bahram Bayzai's Maybe...Some Other Time : The un-Present-able Iran
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (1 (43)): 163–191.
Published: 01 May 2000
... narrative film to be a carefully ordered sequence
of shots that make images speak, then these images speak, but in a
different tongue. The ordering of the shots, though unparalleled
in Persian or English grammar, speaks to Arabic grammatical...
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Queer/Palestinian Cinema: A Critical Conversation on Palestinian Queer and Women's Filmmaking
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 135–143.
Published: 01 September 2012
... 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 possible...
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Hip-Hop Cinema in France
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (1 (46)): 77–97.
Published: 01 May 2001
...
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-
ing their films. (For the same reasons, French women...
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Queering Palestine: Piercing Eytan Fox's Imagined Bubble with Sharif Waked's Chic Point
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 155–160.
Published: 01 September 2012
... 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 coedited...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2008
... promi-
Contested Visions of Palestinian Cinema • 3
nent international projects with the highly experimental interro-
gations of identity that take place in the work of the video artist
Mona Hatoum and, indeed, with other emerging female video art-
ists of the Arab...
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Now You See It, Now You Don't: Transnational Feminist Spectatorship and Farida Benlyazid's A Door to the Sky
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 107–137.
Published: 01 September 2009
... in 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...
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Me and a Rifle (and an IDF Soldier on My Back)
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 161–163.
Published: 01 September 2012
... 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...
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Shampoo: Editing, Advertising, and Codes of Modesty on Saudi Arabian Television
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 91–121.
Published: 01 September 2011
... 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, Advertising...
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Interfaces of Identity: Oriental Traitors and Telematic Profiling in 24
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 109–133.
Published: 01 May 2009
...: 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 seasons 4 and 6 of the program. These
terrorists need to be identified positively...
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Humanity Adrift: Race, Materiality, and Allegory in Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 73–109.
Published: 01 December 2009
... with fgures of uncertain origins, and difference
here registers every level of alterity: racial, gender, 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...
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The Americanization of Tsuru Aoki: Orientalism, Melodrama, Star Image, and the New Woman
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 129–157.
Published: 01 December 2005
.... 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 significant narrative similarities...
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Looking Back and Forward: A Conversation about Women Make Movies
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 147–155.
Published: 01 May 2013
...”
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. Before launching the offer — we called it “Response
to Hate” — we all needed to look...
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Pinkface
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 145–153.
Published: 01 September 2012
... it would be impossible and
probably lethal for me to show my queer themed lms in Ramallah. In
fact, I’ve actually been invited to screen them there this coming year.
And he’s welcome to attend — my treat. I think he might nd that his
sweeping generalizations about gay rights, the Arab world...
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Cinema, Taliban, and Being a Woman in Today's Afghanistan: An Interview with Sahraa Karimi
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 203–212.
Published: 01 December 2023
... against westernized expectation of Eastern women as victims? Yes. The West mostly sees us (women from Afghanistan, the Middle East, or Islamic or Arabic countries) as victims or heroes, with nothing in between. So, through Hava, Maryam, Ayesha , I wanted to both show and also protest the idea...
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Pandemic Stasis and Nonlinear Memory in Palestinian Short Films
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 165–186.
Published: 01 September 2024
...,” Journal of Arabic Literature 35, no. 1 (2004): 1–24, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4183501 ; Anna Ball, “Kafka at the West Bank Checkpoint: De-Normalizing the Palestinian Encounter before the Law,” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 50, no. 1 (2014): 75–87, https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2013.850245...
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