Contemporary Egyptian, Lebanese, Syrian, and North African national cinemas

Question 1

What is the Paradox of modernity

Answer 1

• The idea of nation is modern but it relies on an idea of the past
• The invention of tradition
• In order to be modern you have to go back into the past

Question 1

what is the maghreb

Answer 1

region in North Africa that includes the countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya

Question 2

“Arab Cinema Today,” (Shafik)

Answer 2

-The need to portray the east for western audiences
- Challenging the idea that a film represents a national psychology better than any art form

What films do we get in the west? Art films. We get a narrow national cinema
Art cinema is also the market for scholars

Issue of language
“Thickness” of language - also distortion
- About power, choice