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Index
- Entrepreneurship in a State of Flux: Egypt’s Silent Cinema and Its Transition to Synchronized Sound, 1896-1934
- Barakah Meets Barakah (2016): Not as Slight as It Seems
- "I fell in love with the cinema in my teens and am still paying for it"
- Performing Silence: Screening the Films of Mohamed Bayoumi
- Open Shutters (2008): Cinema of Empowerment
- The Dupes and the Wage of Escapism
- La La Land (2016): The Male Lead should have been Latino
- "The Tongue of Funding: Politics and Practices of Casting for Arab Characters in Transnational Film and Television Production"--A Lecture
- Guest Interview: Khalid Interviews Khaled (Khaled Abol Naga--Acting as a calling and social activism)
- Rags and Tatters (2013): A Nihilisitic Text, a Proposal for Utopia
- Most comprehensive list of films shot in Egypt during its silent era, 1896-1932
- The Deranged New Iconoclasts--ISIS in the Age of Digital Reproduction
- “Seeing” Rodney King’s Arrest through Barthes’ Three Meanings
- Non-linear Narrative Films--A Historical Analysis
- Night of the Hunter (1955): A Blemished Gem
- Gone Girl (2014): Chilled Cynicism with a Dash of Misanthropy
- Land of Fear (1999): Life Under Deep, Interminable Cover
- Guest Review: Mars at Sunrise (2014)
- Trans-Arab Cinema: Governmentality, Nationalism, and the Economies of Filmmaking
- Chronicle of the Years of Embers (1975): Ample Splendor, not Enough Sedition
- The Attack (2012): Polished, Inchoate and False
- The Forgotten (2012): An Unforgettable Short
- Diary of a Country Prosecutor (1969): It's in the Script
- 5 Documentaries--Short Reviews
- 60 Second Scoop: Whad'Ya Know about the Twin Cities Arab Film Festival?
- For the Love of Film in Doha
- Article for Al-Monitor: Little Film Festival That Could: Beirut Beats the Odds
- In Bruges (2008): Trangressive Comedy, Grim Fairytale
- Black Gold (2011): More Like Feculent Brown
- The Postman (1968): An Unmitigated Tragedy, an Unqualified Triumph
- Where Do We Go Now? (2011): Not very far I'm Afraid
- Love in the Medina (2011): Hotter than Sex and the City
- Reflections on Reflections: Qasaqees ath-Thikrayat
- Al-Kitkat (1991): Soaring above the Doldrums
- How Newt Ended up in a Palestino Jersey
- The Dupes (1972): Forgotten Masterpiece of Arab Cinema
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Blog Index
- Entrepreneurship in a State of Flux: Egypt’s Silent Cinema and Its Transition to Synchronized Sound, 1896-1934
- Barakah Meets Barakah (2016): Not as Slight as It Seems
- "I fell in love with the cinema in my teens and am still paying for it"
- Performing Silence: Screening the Films of Mohamed Bayoumi
- Open Shutters (2008): Cinema of Empowerment
- The Dupes and the Wage of Escapism
- La La Land (2016): The Male Lead should have been Latino
- "The Tongue of Funding: Politics and Practices of Casting for Arab Characters in Transnational Film and Television Production"--A Lecture
- Guest Interview: Khalid Interviews Khaled (Khaled Abol Naga--Acting as a calling and social activism)
- Rags and Tatters (2013): A Nihilisitic Text, a Proposal for Utopia
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