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Wasafiri, 2014

Small study. After Hamas won the 2006 elections - many signs were spread that it was ready to compromise - through formal documents as well as through interviews and speeches. This turned out to be a huge missed opportunity for peace.

Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World, 2024

Introduces a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab world focusing on film studies and drawn from papers presented on panels organized by the International Association of Middle Eastern Studies (IAMES) at the Insaniyyat Forum conference in Tunis,Tunisia held in September 2022.

Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET), 2020

Part 2/2 of excerpts from a scientific interview with Medyan Dairieh who travelled to the Islamic State as an embedded journalist during the time of its proclamation in 2014.

Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, 2006

Journalist, screenwriter, and film director, Khalid Mohamed is one of the few people who has managed to make the transition from writing about cinema to directing his own films. A long-time film critic for the Times of India and editor of Filmfare, Mohamed began his film career by writing the script for Shyam Benegal's Mammo (IN, 1995), which was loosely based on his grandaunt's life. In 1994, he wrote a moving piece about this aunt who had been deported to Pakistan from India since she was not an Indian national. Benegal asked him if he could make a film based on her story; this was the beginning of a fruitful collaboration between the two. Mohamed went on to write screenplays for Benegal's Sardari Begum (IN, 1996) and Zubeidaa (IN, 2001) also based on women from his family. His first directorial venture, Fiza, was released in 2000 (IN). The film addressed the Bombay riots of 1992-93 that were sparked off in the wake of the destruction of the Babri masjid in Ayodhya, and attempted to represent the plight of the minority Muslim community in a Hindu-Right dominated India. He followed it up with Tehzeeb (IN, 2003) and more recently with Silsiilay (IN, 2005). Mohamed's films occupy an interesting intermediate space between Hindi commercial cinema and art cinema. Although he often takes on thorny socio-political issues in his scripts and in his films, he also deploys a number of mainstream conventions to communicate his more serious concerns about gender, female sexuality, and Muslim minoritarian identities. In particular, his films invite us to consider how minority religious and cultural differences may be recognized without fixing them into sites of permanent and essential antagonisms, and what sorts of political claims may be articulated from such positions.

Geeska, 2024

An interview with Somali scholar and critic Ali Mumim Ahad about Somali poetry, the responsibility of Somali intellectuals, and Somali history.

Tara Forrest (ed.), Alexander Kluge: Raw Materials for the Imagination (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press), 2012

This essay discusses the representation of Islam in the television of Alexander Kluge. Gruenewald, Tim. " Reframing Islam in Television: Alexander Kluge’s Interviews on Islam and Terrorism since 9/11." In: Tara Forrest (ed.), Alexander Kluge: Raw Materials for the Imagination (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012), pp. 331-351.

2015

Comprised of twenty-seven interviews with leading researches, intellectuals, artists, and activists, this volume explores the ways in which power and popular mobilizations manifest in the contemporary region, as well as the representation of key dynamics, experiences, and figures. Through their own unique perspectives and possibilities, the interviewees and interviewers challenge the ways in which the region is studied, discussed, and represented. Featured interviewees include, among others: Talal Asad, Aslı Bâli, Angela Davis, Wael Gamal, Nigel Gibson, Nile Green, David Harvey, Sonallah Ibrahim, Leila Khaled, Nancy Kricorian, Driss Ksikes, Haytham Manna’, Ella Shohat, and Tariq Tell.

2016

Introduces a special issue of the International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies on film and video drawn from papers presented at the International Association of Contemporary Iraqi Studies (IACIS) conference held in Cairo, Egypt in November 2015.

Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET), 2020

Part 1/2 of excerpts from a scientific interview with Medyan Dairieh who travelled to the Islamic State as an embedded journalist during the time of its proclamation in 2014. Insight includes information on the organisation of the Islamic State's media offices during the bloom of the caliphate.