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Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World 18.1 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World 18.1 is out now!

 

Special Issue: ‘Interventions in Film Studies’

 

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https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-contemporary-iraq-the-arab-world

 

Aims & Scope

 

The Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of the contemporary Middle East and Arab public sphere. Publishing works in both English and Arabic, the journal engages arts and culture, politics, history and economics as they address real world problems across the modern states and mosaic of cultures connected to the Middle East region. JCI&AW works to provide a platform by conveying prominent and emergent new voices in the field as well as by highlighting the relevance of evolving topics and questions of research in the scholarship of Middle Eastern and Iraq Studies.

 

This title is indexed with Scopus.

 

Issue 18.1

 

Introduction

 

Introduction: ‘Interventions in film studies’

TERRI GINSBERG AND CHRIS LIPPARD

 

Articles

 

Why do they speak French? About Lebanese cinema and French diplomacy

WISSAM MOUAWAD

 

Screening sovereignty: Cold War mediations of nationhood in USIA motion picture operations in the SWANA region

BRET VUKODER

 

Dubai-gate and the libidinal operations of nation-making in Girls from Dubai

AGA SKRODZKA

 

Sexuality and/in Arab cinema: Problems in theory

TERRI GINSBERG

 

The refusal of the migrant in Ala Eddine Slim’s The Last of Us

CHRIS LIPPARD