Documentary Filmmaking in the Middle East and North Africa (Hardcover)
- The definitive scholarly book on Arab documentary filmmaking in the Middle East North African (MENA) region. There is nothing like it for the period covered: neither celluloid nor digital periods, as well as the breadth of region-wide inclusivity.
- Editor, Viola Shafik, is extremely respected in the field and a leading name in Arab film studies.
- Includes a wide range of prominent contributors.
- Shafik is the author of Arab Cinema: Culture and Identity
- 66 b/w photographs
Viola Shafik studied Film and Middle Eastern Studies in Hamburg and works as a film scholar, creative consultant, and filmmaker. She has directed several documentaries, most notably My Name Is Not Ali (2011) and Arij: Scent of Revolution (2014). She is the author of Popular Egyptian Cinema: Gender, Class, and Nation (AUC Press, 2007) and Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity (revised and updated edition, AUC Press, 2016).