Introduction: Auteur Directors, Political Dissent, and Social
Critique Josef Gugler
1. Nabil Maleh: Syria's Leopard (Syria) Christa Salamandra
2. Jocelyne Saab: A Lifetime Journey in Search of Freedom and
Beauty (Lebanon) Dalia Said Mostafa
3. Michel Khleifi: Filmmaker of Memory (Palestine) Tim Kennedy
4. Elia Suleiman: Narrating Negative Space (Palestine) Refqa
Abu-Remaileh
5. Youssef Chahine: Devouring Mimicries or Juggling with Self and
Other (Egypt) Viola Shafik
6. Daoud Abd El-Sayed: Parody and Borderline Existence (Egypt)
Viola Shafik
7. Yousry Nasrallah: The Pursuit of Autonomy in the Arab and
European Film Markets (Egypt) Benjamin Geer
8. Mohamed Chouikh: From Anti-colonial Commemoration to a Cinema of
Contestation (Algeria) Guy Austin
9. Merzak Allouache: (Self-)Censorship, Social Critique and the
Limits of Political Engagement in Contemporary Algerian Cinema
(Algeria) Will Higbee
10. Nabil Ayouch: Transgression, Identity, and Difference (Morocco)
Jonathan Smolin
Film Index
Name Index
Josef Gugler is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of African Film: Re-Imagining a Continent (IUP, 2003) and editor of Film in the Middle East and North Africa: Creative Dissidence.
Ten Arab Filmmakers contributes in a positive, meaningful way to
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higher education, encouraging students and the general public to
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*Journal of North African Studies*
Gugler has done an admirable job taking the reader on a complex but
passionate journey through the work of ten Arab fi lmmakers.
*Black Camera*
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