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Volume 21, Issue 1 (1999) Middle Eastern Films Before Thy Gaze Returns to Thee

From the Introduction That's All

"In the two film series I curated at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, I presented films from or relating to the Middle East... that cannot be reduced to pretexts to speak about politics, ethnography, sociology, psychology, or religion;... I did not show any works whose main function is to provide a critique or parody of stereotypes of Middle Easterners, let alone works that do not even provide such a critique but merely the occasion for subsequent verbose discussions full of resentment... I find the encounter with such ostensibly critical academic catalogues of stereotypes of Arabs even more oppressive than the rude transactions with prejudiced airport security officials or embassy employees..." (Read More)

Introduction

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Untitled Epigraph
Discourse Editors

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That's All
Jalal Toufic

Articles

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Itinerary, 1944-1983: Interviews with Sohrab Shahid Saless
Mamad Haghighat and Sohrab Shahid Saless

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This Isn't Pessimism: Interview with Sohrab Shahid Saless
Mamad Haghighat, Rahgozar, and Sohrab Shahid Saless

Contributor

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Contributors
Discourse Editors

Issue Editors

Guest Editor
Jalal Toufic
General Editor
Rolando J. Romero
Managing Editor
Joe Barcroft