Stefanie Van de Peer is Reader in Film & Media at Queen Margaret University. She has published Negotiating Dissidence (EUP 2017), Women in African Cinema (Routledge 2020) and ReFocus: The Films of Annemarie Jacir (EUP 2023). She has also edited several edited collections on diverse topics including Jocelyne Saab’s work, Arab Stardom and Global Feminist Film Archives. She sits on the Executive Committee of the British Association of Film, TV and Screen Studies, is series editor for EUP’s ReFocus: The International Directors series, and is associate editor for the journal Studies in World Cinema.

• List of ImagesAcknowledgementsIntroduction Chapter 1: Ateyyat El Abnoudy: Poetic Realism in Egyptian DocumentariesChapter 2: Jocelyne Saab: Artistic-Journalistic Documentaries in Lebanese Times of WarChapter 3: Selma Baccar: Nonfiction in Tunisia, the Land of FictionsChapter 4: Assia Djebar: Algerian images-son in Experimental DocumentariesChapter 5: Mai Masri: Mothering Filmmakers in Palestinian Revolutionary CinemaChapter 6: Izza Génini: The Performance of Heritage in Moroccan Music DocumentariesChapter 7: Hala Alabdallah Yakoub: Documentary as Poetic Subjective Experience in SyriaWorks Cited

Disputing the notion that documentary exploits the vulnerable, Van de Peer’s fascinating study of great Arab women documentarists shows how subject, filmmaker, and viewer can collaborate in the creative work of solidarity and understanding. Rich with historical context, the book is also an ideal introduction to Arab cultural history since 1967

Stefanie Van de Peer is Reader in Film & Media at Queen Margaret University. She has published Negotiating Dissidence (EUP 2017), Women in African Cinema (Routledge 2020) and ReFocus: The Films of Annemarie Jacir (EUP 2023). She has also edited several edited collections on diverse topics including Jocelyne Saab’s work, Arab Stardom and Global Feminist Film Archives. She sits on the Executive Committee of the British Association of Film, TV and Screen Studies, is series editor for EUP’s ReFocus: The International Directors series, and is associate editor for the journal Studies in World Cinema.

• List of ImagesAcknowledgementsIntroduction Chapter 1: Ateyyat El Abnoudy: Poetic Realism in Egyptian DocumentariesChapter 2: Jocelyne Saab: Artistic-Journalistic Documentaries in Lebanese Times of WarChapter 3: Selma Baccar: Nonfiction in Tunisia, the Land of FictionsChapter 4: Assia Djebar: Algerian images-son in Experimental DocumentariesChapter 5: Mai Masri: Mothering Filmmakers in Palestinian Revolutionary CinemaChapter 6: Izza Génini: The Performance of Heritage in Moroccan Music DocumentariesChapter 7: Hala Alabdallah Yakoub: Documentary as Poetic Subjective Experience in SyriaWorks Cited

Disputing the notion that documentary exploits the vulnerable, Van de Peer’s fascinating study of great Arab women documentarists shows how subject, filmmaker, and viewer can collaborate in the creative work of solidarity and understanding. Rich with historical context, the book is also an ideal introduction to Arab cultural history since 1967

Stefanie Van de Peer is Reader in Film & Media at Queen Margaret University. She has published Negotiating Dissidence (EUP 2017), Women in African Cinema (Routledge 2020) and ReFocus: The Films of Annemarie Jacir (EUP 2023). She has also edited several edited collections on diverse topics including Jocelyne Saab’s work, Arab Stardom and Global Feminist Film Archives. She sits on the Executive Committee of the British Association of Film, TV and Screen Studies, is series editor for EUP’s ReFocus: The International Directors series, and is associate editor for the journal Studies in World Cinema.

• List of ImagesAcknowledgementsIntroduction Chapter 1: Ateyyat El Abnoudy: Poetic Realism in Egyptian DocumentariesChapter 2: Jocelyne Saab: Artistic-Journalistic Documentaries in Lebanese Times of WarChapter 3: Selma Baccar: Nonfiction in Tunisia, the Land of FictionsChapter 4: Assia Djebar: Algerian images-son in Experimental DocumentariesChapter 5: Mai Masri: Mothering Filmmakers in Palestinian Revolutionary CinemaChapter 6: Izza Génini: The Performance of Heritage in Moroccan Music DocumentariesChapter 7: Hala Alabdallah Yakoub: Documentary as Poetic Subjective Experience in SyriaWorks Cited

Disputing the notion that documentary exploits the vulnerable, Van de Peer’s fascinating study of great Arab women documentarists shows how subject, filmmaker, and viewer can collaborate in the creative work of solidarity and understanding. Rich with historical context, the book is also an ideal introduction to Arab cultural history since 1967